Re: [libreoffice-users] Issue install on a a Dell

2014-05-19 Thread Cley Faye
2014-05-19 1:19 GMT+02:00 Wade Smart wadesm...@gmail.com: Trying to install LibraOffice, Im having this problem. It says its installing - it skips to installed. No icons. No program files were created. When I run the install program again it shows either repair or remove - so it things its

Re: [libreoffice-users] Which components do you use most?

2014-05-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It might be interesting to ask the same question in a few other places, although some places might need options such as i don't use office software often or using the names of the equivalents in KOffice/Caligra. I wonder if a proper vote thing could be set-up easily on the Apache OpenOffice

[libreoffice-users] How to clone a document, including outline numbering?

2014-05-19 Thread muhali
The purpose is to clone an entire document into an empty new document. To do so, I would select the document and paste the selection into the new document, then load the style definitions from the original document (via F11 - Load Styles..., all styles and Overwrite). This reproduces everything

Re: [libreoffice-users] Issue install on a a Dell

2014-05-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There are tons of unofficial sites, repos and magazine Cds/Dvds that offer great bundles or pure versions of LibreOffice. it's very rare to find any that create any kind of problem at all. The only thing is that since you have found a problem it would be nice to try re-downloading from

[libreoffice-users] Generating a odt file

2014-05-19 Thread mkanada
In the system I'm developing, I need to generate some odt documents. Knowing a little about 'odt' file structure, I had the following idea: - Create a document in libreoffice - transform 'content.xml' with freemarker But the generated document dont open and I dont know why. 'content.xml' seems

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to clone a document, including outline numbering?

2014-05-19 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 05/19/2014 06:24 AM, muhali wrote: The purpose is to clone an entire document into an empty new document. To do so, I would select the document and paste the selection into the new document, then load the style definitions from the original document (via F11 - Load Styles..., all styles and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Generating a odt file

2014-05-19 Thread Daniel A. Rodriguez
2014-05-19 8:13 GMT-03:00 mkanada mkan...@yahoo.com: In the system I'm developing, I need to generate some odt documents. Knowing a little about 'odt' file structure, I had the following idea: - Create a document in libreoffice - transform 'content.xml' with freemarker But the generated

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to clone a document, including outline numbering?

2014-05-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The problem with that way is that a ton of excess coding might be saved right along with everything else. I suspect the o.p. is trying to clean-up a document. Maybe not though in which case your way is really simple and very quick. When people send me stuff for my company's (well my

Re: [libreoffice-users] Generating a odt file

2014-05-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is xml a standarised struture? I thought that each implementation allowed radical differences. Isn't it similar to css where definitions happen in the header section, or even in a completely different file or maybe even hard-coded into an app? If xml is standarised as an ISO format then

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to clone a document, including outline numbering?

2014-05-19 Thread muhali
Virgil Arrington wrote At any rate, the easiest way I know to clone a document is to save it with a new name, using the File/Save As command. the reason for cloning is - usually - to overcome difficulties with MS Word import, e.g., with unused bibliography entries accumulated from earlier

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to clone a document, including outline numbering?

2014-05-19 Thread Cor Nouws
Virgil Arrington wrote (19-05-14 13:40) I believe the outline numbering is controlled by the settings in the Template being used when you open an empty new document. I don't think it is controlled by paragraph styles. It's controled by settings in Tools Outline numbering. And stored in a

[libreoffice-users] Capitalizing Similar to Sentence Structure for Fields

2014-05-19 Thread Joel Madero
Hi All, Bug report says that it's not possible to insert a field and capitalize like a sentence (ie. first word capitalized, everything else not). Can someone take a look at this: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76463list_id=424995 and tell me if it's currently possible. It seems

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to clone a document, including outline numbering?

2014-05-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Still, it's always good to give the simplest answers jic that really was all you wanted. If nothing else it's good for the archives for people in the future who might be really unclear about the finesses and detail. Also it gets it out of the way and lets you know that your message has

[libreoffice-users] Re: non-mainstream

2014-05-19 Thread anne-ology
interesting; as for me, I spend most of my time off-line socialize with friends the 'old-fashioned' way ;-) I wish your British pubs were here in the States - the food was delicious - from steak kidney pie to lamb stews ... ... ... ;-) From: Tom Davies

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to clone a document, including outline numbering?

2014-05-19 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 5/19/2014 7:58 AM, muhali wrote: the reason for cloning is - usually - to overcome difficulties with MS Word import, e.g., with unused bibliography entries accumulated from earlier versions of the document, etc. For that, just copying the document won't help. I may be completely

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Download page fails again

2014-05-19 Thread Tim Lloyd
Hi, I have to admit I am stumped. I was wondering whether there was a firefox problem but that does not seem to be the case. All I can suggest is raising a bug. 2 people have highlighted this and in both cases you are running Ubuntu so that is something for the devs/QA to go on. Sorry I

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to clone a document, including outline numbering?

2014-05-19 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 5/19/2014 8:33 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: Virgil Arrington wrote (19-05-14 13:40) I believe the outline numbering is controlled by the settings in the Template being used when you open an empty new document. I don't think it is controlled by paragraph styles. It's controled by settings in Tools

RE: [libreoffice-users] How to clone a document, including outline numbering?

2014-05-19 Thread Jeff Hahn
The solution I adopted is I created separate files with the outline format I want (I have 4 files with different formats). I made the outline as deep as possible so I wouldn't have to update the format. When I am creating a new document I copy and paste the outline into the new document and

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to clone a document, including outline numbering?

2014-05-19 Thread Virgil Arrington
Jeff, Thanks for the tip. I'll try that. Virgil On 5/19/2014 6:30 PM, Jeff Hahn wrote: The solution I adopted is I created separate files with the outline format I want (I have 4 files with different formats). I made the outline as deep as possible so I wouldn't have to update the format.

RE: [libreoffice-users] Capitalizing Similar to Sentence Structure for Fields

2014-05-19 Thread V Stuart Foote
@Joel, *, Spent some time with it, not possible. A valid enhancement request. Responded on the bug report... Stuart From: Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 10:22 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: