[libreoffice-users] Duplication/replacement of text attributes

2012-07-14 Thread Andrew Brager
Greetings to you all. I'm new to Libre Office. I'm wondering if there's a way to duplicate/replace attributes from one paragraph to another in so that they are formatted identically. A frequent problem for me (typically when I copy paste from elsewhere) is that two sentences/paragraphs

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base fread-only

2012-07-18 Thread Andrew Brager
On 7/18/2012 1:05 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 07/18/2012 03:22 PM, Larry Blanchard wrote: So I'm back in business. But for future reference, how the @#$%! do I make the original read/write or at least get some sort of error message - and yes I've checked the Linux log files for messages - no joy

[libreoffice-users] Labeling in Calc

2012-07-20 Thread Andrew Brager
Using Calc, I need a way to specify that a group of rows all belong together/have the same title. For example. Say I have a bank that has multiple branches. Each branch has it's own name like southwest branch, but they're all part of the same bank - Bank of America perhaps. Each branch has

Re: [libreoffice-users] Labeling in Calc

2012-07-20 Thread Andrew Brager
word wrapping for that one cell. On 7/20/2012 12:57 PM, Andrew Brager wrote: Using Calc, I need a way to specify that a group of rows all belong together/have the same title. For example. Say I have a bank that has multiple branches. Each branch has it's own name like southwest branch

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Labeling in Calc

2012-07-21 Thread Andrew Brager
On 7/21/2012 10:47 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 20.07.2012 23:50, Andrew Brager wrote: Nevermind, I figured it out. In case anyone else has a similar desire and wants to know... I simply select all the rows I want to belong to a group, add a border around it all, and insert a row above the box

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Labeling in Calc

2012-07-22 Thread Andrew Brager
Exactly Tom. With Calc, setup cost and time is next to zero, with data entry not much more. With Base setup cost and time is non-negligible and data entry is much more time (and therefore real dollar cost) consuming as each field needs to be filled in by hand when using a form. With a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Labeling in Calc

2012-07-22 Thread Andrew Brager
On 7/22/2012 10:34 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Enter raw data into a spreadsheet (Excel, Gnumeric, Calc, whatever), a text editor, some dBase application, a true database, whatever. Connect a Base document to the tabular data source and design a report. But that's the point isn't it. I've got

Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting

2012-07-25 Thread Andrew Brager
awaiting your responses now. On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Andrew Brager apb3...@bak.rr.com wrote: I don't know anything about the inner workings of LO. I'm actually just a beginner with LO and I had never opened Impress until you posted. The method I described below allows you to change all

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibO 3.6.0.2 - Calc: date notation

2012-07-26 Thread Andrew Brager
Hmmm... Year/Month/Day Drop the year for a moment and you have Month/Day: 7/26 Sounds almost... American style. ;-) On 7/26/2012 4:05 AM, Ian Whitfield wrote: (For clarity and ease of reading I always use the 3-Letter month abbreviation. So today is 2012 Jul 26!! Ian W Pretoria, South

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer loses format of MSOffice2007-Doc (watermark, embedded image, format etc)

2012-07-27 Thread Andrew Brager
Sounds like whatever is displaying the image isn't being initialized properly for whatever reason. Reopening it allows that function to execute with the proper parameters. To sit on the page in the proper place the coordinates of the image would have to be known and set properly. If the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: I have a question

2012-07-28 Thread Andrew Brager
Not sure who asked the original question, nor what OS you're on but... If you're using Linux and the files are in fact text files (CVS) as indicated below, then I would think something to the effect of: cat file1 file2 file3 | sort | uniq uniqueRecords.txt Might do part of the trick. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] insufficient user rights if I change the filename

2012-08-01 Thread Andrew Brager
As a forced Windoze user with nearly daily machine crashes (Blue Screen of Frustration anyone?) with a high loss record, I have my autosave set for every 5 minutes. I can live with the 3 second pauses. Well worth the potential loss of an hours worth of work that would be impossible to

[libreoffice-users] Default style list

2012-08-01 Thread Andrew Brager
Most of the time when I create a new document I want to set the Title style on the first line/paragraph. So, I go to the little dropdown box at the top on the left, where common styles are selected (what I'm calling the default style selection list - for lack of a better known alternative)

Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles

2012-08-02 Thread Andrew Brager
On 8/2/2012 6:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by using the feature Register true. Kind regards Regina I have in fact wondered what Register true was for, thanks for that info. The question that next comes up in my mind is, does

Re: [libreoffice-users] paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread Andrew Brager
First make sure the regular expressions box is checked (ticked as you Europeans say). Then try the previously mentioned suggestion by Andreas. If that still doesn't work, try and Use [:cntrl:] as your search string. On 8/6/2012 1:22 PM, carlamar...@xmsnet.nl wrote: I want to get rid of

Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles

2012-08-06 Thread Andrew Brager
On 8/2/2012 8:13 AM, Dan wrote: Andrew Brager wrote: On 8/2/2012 6:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by using the feature Register true. Kind regards Regina I have in fact wondered what Register true was for, thanks for that info

register true origins (was Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles)

2012-08-06 Thread Andrew Brager
On 8/6/2012 4:53 PM, Dan wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Dan elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: Andrew Brager wrote: On 8/2/2012 6:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by using the feature Register true. Kind regards Regina

Re: register true origins (was Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles)

2012-08-06 Thread Andrew Brager
On 8/6/2012 6:47 PM, Dan wrote: Doug wrote: On 08/06/2012 08:58 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 07/08/2012 at 02:40, Andrew Bragerapb3...@bak.rr.com wrote: Without meaning to fan the flames, can you provide another citation outside of LO that supports the theory espoused? That register

Re: register true origins (was Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles)

2012-08-07 Thread Andrew Brager
On 8/7/2012 9:58 AM, Felmon Davis wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 07/08/2012 at 07:37, Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu wrote: perhaps also Miroslav could cite a book or two; don't see what difference it makes if the books are in Polish. if Missouri is the 'show-me'

Re: register true origins (was Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles)

2012-08-08 Thread Andrew Brager
While I've traditionally used google translate, somehow I ended up at Bing translate. Bing says: It is a remarkable admiration So it pays to shop around. On 8/8/2012 5:32 AM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 07/08/2012 at 21:39, Andrew Brager apb3...@bak.rr.com wrote: however the argument falls

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: register true origins

2012-08-08 Thread Andrew Brager
On 8/7/2012 7:11 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 12:39 07/08/2012 -0700, Andrew Brager wrote: Yet, it fails to answer my original question which is where do the words register true come from, and to extend and clarify the question - how did register true come to mean aligning baselines? I think

Re: [libreoffice-users] why does Windows version take so long to remove?

2012-08-10 Thread Andrew Brager
You clearly don't play video games :^) On 8/10/2012 6:02 AM, Lynne Stevens wrote: *Might also upgrade to Linux a windows is not one of the better systems to use for anything . -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] White lines

2012-08-10 Thread Andrew Brager
A blank line does not have to be an empty line. (^$) A blank line (as perceived by the human eye) can have spaces, tabs and/or other non-printing characters in it. (^ $). A blank line may actually be nothing more than space added by a particular style and therefore not subject to

Re: [libreoffice-users] White lines

2012-08-10 Thread Andrew Brager
Carla, Out of the many suggestions already provided to you, which ones have you tried and what were the results? Have you: 1) Checked off (ticked) the regular expressions box? 2) Tried using the ^$ suggestion? 3) Tried using my all inclusive white space suggestion [:cntrl:] ? 4) Tried using

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: White lines

2012-08-10 Thread Andrew Brager
On 8/10/2012 3:09 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 10.08.2012 22:41, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: Andrew wrote: A blank line does not have to be an empty line. (^$) She didn’t say “blank line”: she said “white line.” A white line is a line space between paragraphs that contains no text. (In a

Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting

2012-08-10 Thread Andrew Brager
, or it acts like I clicked it twice - and so deletes two emails when I had only intended to delete one and I don't always notice. You have no idea how aggravating that is!) On 7/25/2012 7:53 PM, Andrew Brager wrote: On 7/25/2012 6:30 PM, anne-ology wrote: Forinstance, this last

Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting

2012-08-11 Thread Andrew Brager
On 8/10/2012 7:44 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 16:31 10/08/2012 -0700, Andrew Brager wrote: The answer suddenly dawned on me. I believe it was Brian Barker that actually provided the solution to my problem, so he gets 90% of the credit. As he suggested to me, create a template. I think

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reply settings on this list have changed

2012-08-14 Thread Andrew Brager
The questions on your poll are rather leading. The items you have selected as questions are really not the issue at all. This list is still a list, what else could it be? You're using it right now as you're complaining about it. So clearly, it's not private communication at all. You

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Excuse me, but your opinion is simply unimportant. Start over and you can expect more of the same.

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Brager
I was curious as to what the commotion on this subject was so I looked at the bug submitted wherein I found the automated message: Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:27:51 UTC [This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Excuse me, but your opinion is simply unimportant. Start over and you can expect more of the same.

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Brager
in March. The March notice re 'my' bug was in fact bogus, because the bug was documented very well, and status was simply not changed because no dev took the time to address the bug. On 8/15/12 12:54 PM, Andrew Brager wrote: I was curious as to what the commotion on this subject was so I looked

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Excuse me, but your opinion is simply unimportant. Start over and you can expect more of the same.

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Brager
On 8/15/2012 3:20 PM, Marc Grober wrote: On 8/15/12 1:57 PM, Andrew Brager wrote: Thanks for your comments. What still remains unclear to me (not that it matters as I have no influence/authority on anything done by anyone - I'm simply trying to help you all sort it out so somebody

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Reply settings on this list have changed

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Brager
On 8/15/2012 5:11 PM, anne-ology wrote: I find deleting to be slightly easier than copy paste in order to include the original sender. Further, what difference does it make to you how many copies the original sender receives? If I happen to receive two copies of a response to me,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Reply settings on this list have changed

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Brager
Thunderbird has the option. I don't know what other clients have it, if any. On 8/15/2012 5:00 PM, anne-ology wrote: exactly - well, there is a third option [to forward ;-) ] And those are the only options available in the web-based e-mails as well. BTW - I've never

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Excuse me, but your opinion is simply unimportant. Start over and you can expect more of the same.

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Brager
I've seen at least one or two people respond to the question. For some reason you don't appear to be seeing all the posts here. In particular you didn't respond to one of my own, specifically addressing your font issue wherein I provided a possible resolution. This particular message I'm

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Excuse me, but your opinion is simply unimportant. Start over and you can expect more of the same.

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Brager
15, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Andrew Brager apb3...@bak.rr.com mailto:apb3...@bak.rr.com wrote: I've seen at least one or two people respond to the question. For some reason you don't appear to be seeing all the posts here. In particular you didn't respond to one of my own, specifically