[libreoffice-users] Double Underline in Calc

[Jim Byrnes]

Using LO vers 4.2.8.2 on Ubuntu 14.04

If I go Format Cells--> Line Styles --> double underline all I see in 
the cells I am trying to format is a thick dark line.


Is there a way to fix this?

Regards,  Jim


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem viewing embedded videos on Windows

[libreoffice-ml . mbourne]

anne-ology wrote:

(1) the best video player I've found to view any of this media is
VLC;
   this can be found with reviews at the Gizmo's site -
  http://www.techsupportalert.com


The official site for VLC is .

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Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting elderdanlewis :






 Original message 
From: Dave Stevens 
Date:03/25/2016  9:39 PM  (GMT-05:00)
To: Dan Lewis 
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

Quoting Dan Lewis :


On 03/25/2016 05:22 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote:

Bruce Byfield wrote:

On Friday, March 25, 2016 01:51:25 PM James Knott wrote:

On 03/25/2016 01:42 PM, Dave Liesse wrote:

This is my busy season at work so I haven't had a lot of time, yet,
but I downloaded the PDF version and took a quick look at a couple of
chapters I need the most.  I'm quite impressed.  Good job!


An epub version would be nice.  I find they work better on
tablets than pdf.


I hope an epub version is coming. However, porting
highly-formatted material
to .epub format can be difficult, so it's going to take some time.

If anybody has any advice, I would appreciate hearing it.


Calibre  is an open source ebook manager
which can import various formats, including ODT, and convert to
various formats, including EPUB. I haven't used it much; about the
most I've done is convert a couple of CHM (Windows help) files to
AZW3 to read on a Kindle, which seemed to work reasonably well. On
the Kindle, images are scaled to fit on the page, but a
press-and-hold allows them to be enlarged to full screen and zoomed
in further to see detail. I don't know how well it does with
complex documents, but may be worth trying.


 I have used calibre to convert Getting Started with Base from
ODT to ePUB format.

Dan


I used calibre just now to convert to epub. You can read it all right,
but there's a lot of formatting that doesn't make it.

D



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   You are correct. For a good conversion between formats, you need  
to use the editor component of calibre. With this, the styles can be  
corrected. It takes several hours to do this. Using search and  
replace can make it quicker. Regular expressions can be used to make  
it even quicker. Patience and practice will help too.
I have written a document about how to use calibre to do this,  
but it needs to be updated. Is someone needing this?


Dan


why not post it anyway Dan, with caveat if necessary, and let folks  
see what needs doing, it might be useful anyway.


Dave






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Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem viewing embedded videos on Windows

[anne-ology]

   Maybe I can help;

   (1) the best video player I've found to view any of this media is
VLC;
  this can be found with reviews at the Gizmo's site -
 http://www.techsupportalert.com

   for further response, see interspersed below,




From: Sven Arvidsson 
Date: Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:10 AM
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Problem viewing embedded videos on Windows
To: users@global.libreoffice.org


Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to view embedded mp4 videos in a pptx
presentation on Windows.

   [.mp4 videos can be viewed with VLC;
   if this is located within a PP, then LO's version should open it as
well - although I suspect that maybe it's not a PP video (that x) so
possibly MsFt has again changed their settings to be incompatible]

This works fine with LO 5.1.2 on Debian, but the same version on
Windows only gives me a big black question mark where the video should
be. (Same behaviour with older LO releases).

   [haven't a clue]

Converting the file to odp makes no difference, I also tried
extracting the videos, and they play fine in Windows Media Player, so
codecs doesn't seem to be an issue.

   [how about saving the video to your machine, then opening with VLC]

The videos are H264 with no sound track.

Any help appreciated!

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se

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Re: [libreoffice-users] LO spreadsheet format row

[Brian Barker]

At 11:32 28/03/2016 -0400, Helen Etters wrote:
Is there a way, in L.O. spreadsheet, to lock the rows so that a row 
cannot take more than one line?


The default formatting of cells means that text does not flow to 
further lines in a cell unless either you enter Ctrl+Enter to create 
a line break or you tick Format | Cells... | Alignment | Properties | 
Wrap text automatically.



So that all rows have the same height.


Even if you allow multiple lines, you can easily reset any row height 
to whatever you want.



Freeze doesn't seem to do that.


That's not surprising: Freeze does something else entirely.

Do you perhaps mean that you want others to be able to use the 
spreadsheet and to modify it, but not to modify the height of a 
particular row or rows? You can do that by protecting the row or 
rows, but that also prevents modification of other features of those 
rows, including their contents - which you may not want. To avoid 
that, you could protect a single otherwise unused cell in any such 
row; other cells in the row could then be modified. The problem is 
that this appears to prevent explicit changes to the row height - by 
dragging the row boundary or setting the height via the menus - but 
not automatic ones through "Wrap text automatically" or ones 
stimulated by Ctrl+Enter line breaks.


o Click the rectangle where the row and column headers meet (or press 
Ctrl+A) to select the entire sheet.
o Go to Format | Cells... | Cell Protection | Protection and remove 
the tick from Protected.

o Select the row or rows you want to protect or the unused cell or cells.
o Go to Format | Cells... | Cell Protection | Protection and tick Protected.
o Now go to Tools | Protect Document > | Sheet... and enter your password.

But I fear that this will not achieve what you need.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New LibreOffice Book

[Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster]

I am using Ubuntu 15.10 64-bit with MATE.

I use Calibre every time I get an error, like unsupported format, when 
trying to read books and documents on my 10 inch Android tablet.


At times I have to use one set of formatting settings, while sometimes 
other settings, to get the source .epub documents/books to work 
correctly.  ALSO, I tend to reformat PDF files to be an easier read than 
in its original "small print" page formatting, since these PDF pages 
have their text too small for my eyes to read without eye strain.




On 03/27/2016 02:39 PM, CVAlkan wrote:

I for one would certainly be interested in your document. I've used Calibre
only slightly, and would certainly like to see how to do what you describe.

-Frank



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Re: [libreoffice-users] LO spreadsheet format row

[jorge]

Hi Helen:

I think that you can do this:

If you can lock Row A

a)Select, the rest of the sheet A2 to AMJ1048576, then go to 
b)Menu-Format-Cell-Protect Cell-uncheck protect box, then go to
c)Menu-Tools-Protect Document-Document
d)There, asign a password if you want, and keep check both boxes there. 
 
Now you can work in whatever cell except in all cells of row A.

You can do this in whatever cell or cells that you want to lock.

I hope this help,

Regards,

Jorge Rodríguez  


El lun, 28-03-2016 a las 11:32 -0400, Helen escribió:
> Is there a way, in L.O. spreadsheet, to lock the rows so that a row cannot
> take
> more than one line?  So that all rows have the same height.  Freeze doens't
> seem to do that.
> Thank you,
> 
> -- 
> Helen Etters
> using Linux, suse12.3
> 

-- 
Atentamente,

Jorge Rodríguez


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[libreoffice-users] LO spreadsheet format row

[Helen]

Is there a way, in L.O. spreadsheet, to lock the rows so that a row cannot
take
more than one line?  So that all rows have the same height.  Freeze doens't
seem to do that.
Thank you,

-- 
Helen Etters
using Linux, suse12.3

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[libreoffice-users] Problem viewing embedded videos on Windows

[Sven Arvidsson]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to view embedded mp4 videos in a pptx
presentation on Windows.

This works fine with LO 5.1.2 on Debian, but the same version on
Windows only gives me a big black question mark where the video should
be. (Same behaviour with older LO releases).

Converting the file to odp makes no difference, I also tried
extracting the videos, and they play fine in Windows Media Player, so
codecs doesn't seem to be an issue.

The videos are H264 with no sound track.

Any help appreciated!

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Volunteers for Documentation

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
That sounds like a perfect combination :)  I think you already do give back
to the community by helping solve problems raised in this mailing list.  So
don't worry about that angle!  However i'm sure the Documentation Team
would be glad to benefit from you too :)

The first step is to send an email to their mailing list;
documentat...@global.libreoffice.org
to say a little about yourself or/and your reason for joining in with work
on documentation.  Your 2nd paragraph is perfect for that :)  Some people
send in a full CV but really just a brief introduction is plenty.

It is a good idea to state that you would like a login for the ODFauthors
website;
http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/
because the Documentation Team is so tiny and busy that it sometimes takes
them a while to realise they need to do a few things to set-up for you.

After sending a first email to them it's probably a good plan to start
reading some of their "First steps with the Documentation team";
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development

It usually takes them a fair while to respond so it's good to have
something constructive to do to avoid getting too frustrated with them.
You may find the guide to help you write, edit, proof-read or review the
guides raises some questions which might be a good way of "bumping" your
first post to them.



Btw with your back-ground in programming you might enjoy joining the QA
Team too, or instead.  QA is not much to do with actually programming but
your experience with programming might be really useful in triaging and
de-geekifying some of the responses/requests from the devs.

Each different team has it's own personality(/ies) which is often quite a
bit different from what anyone might expect.  It's sometimes good to try a
few different teams out before settling down with one.

Many thanks, good luck and regards from
Tom :)




On 28 March 2016 at 02:16, James E. Lang  wrote:

> I often cringe when I read things with omitted or doubled words or with
> incorrectly spelled words or with incorrectly selected words. However in
> the. Interest of harmony and multicultural understanding I generally bite
> my tongue and say nothing.
>
> That said, I can freely dish out constructive criticism. My native
> language is English (US) though I also spent 3 1/2 years in New Zealand
> where English (UK) is the norm. I am a 77 year old retired computer
> programmer without database experience. I use LibreOffice Calc heavily and
> LibreOffice Writer sporadically.
>
> It would be my honor to be able to give back to the project in the manner
> suggested.
>
> --
> Jim

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