Re: [libreoffice-users] undo functionality

[Bo Siltberg]

If you lose work because of limited undo then there is something wrong with
your method of working.
Anyhow, go into *Options -> LibreOffice -> Memory* and raise the *Undo
number of steps*.

2016-06-01 15:40 GMT+02:00 Joel Madero :

>
> Seriously people,
>>>
>>> this is the second time I have lost a great amount of work because the
>>> undo functionality of LibreOffice is about limited to one paragraph.
>>>
>>> The alternative to make backups every time you change something is
>>> just not workable.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Are you just ranting? This isn't a question at all.
>
> Feel free to report a concise bug at bugs.libreoffice.org - explain the
> problem  and how you think it should work. I've been using LibreOffice for
> years and been a contributor for that time period and no one else has come
> up complaining about this.
>
> FWIW - this is a free open source project, so volunteers tackle issues as
> they want. There are no guarantees and it's a take it or leave it
> situation. Of course patches are always welcome (the code is out there to
> dive right into).
>
> Best,
> Joel
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Re: [libreoffice-users] undo functionality

[Bo Siltberg]

Then try 5.0 if you need extensive undo, or simply try to find another way
of writing that does not rely in too much undo. It is clearly not meant for
reverting some hour of work.


2016-06-01 21:38 GMT+02:00 Steve Edmonds :

> Correct, there are no undo settings in my 5.1.2 from openSUSE, although it
> is in the help.
> steve
>
> On 2016-06-02 07:16, B.S. wrote:
>
>> Also there is not actually any such option in the version I use.
>>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] a question about openning large document with libreoffice writer:

[Bo Siltberg]

Do you have lots of images in the document? That will certainly increase
the size of the file, but will also increase the loading and saving time. I
have a doc with 900 pages that loads and saves in about 15 seconds. I think
it has more than 1000 images. I moved all of them outside the odt file some
years ago which improved the performance, don't remember how much but alot.

Then, the xml code could need a cleanup of unused types etc which could
affect the performance. I have been looking for a cleaning program myself
but have not found one.

Last, the computer is of course of importance. Moving from an old laptop to
a new with SSD disk and fast CPU cut the loading and saving time to 50 %.


2016-02-16 18:48 GMT+01:00 Paul D. Mirowsky :

> Suggest trying 2 looking at 2 things.
> 1.  Clear Direct formatting.
> 2.  If you have less than 20% of storage, clean up till you reach 30% and
> then Defrag.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> On 2/16/2016 9:57 AM, nasrin khaksar wrote:
>
>> hi every one.
>> i have a question when i want to open one document which has 960 pages
>> and about 9.5 mb with writer on windows xp.
>> when i try to open it, it needs exactly 1 hour and 45 minute to be
>> opened completely.
>> i gave my document to my sister for testing.
>> for her it took only 65 minute for openning.
>> whats the problem source and what should i do?
>> i think that my document is simple without images and graphical
>> thinks, but i am not shure.
>> because i use nvda screen reader and i dont know about graphics.
>> thanks for your answer and god bless you all.
>>
>>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] question about libreoffice 4.3 and automatic spell check

[Bo Siltberg]

For 2/, you can open Tools -> Customise -> Keyboard. However, it wont give
you a nice readable overview of all shortcuts.


2016-02-17 8:35 GMT+01:00 nasrin khaksar :

> hi every one.
> i have three questions and hope that you help me in these cases like
> previous times.
> 1/ in libreoffice 4.4 and above, an option added for activate or
> deactivate automatic spell check in the tools menu that i can select
> whether i want automatic spell check to be checked or not.
> whats about version 4.3? how can deactivate automatic spell check in
> versions before 4.4?
> 2/ how can i see full list of libreoffice writer shortcuts?
> and 3/ is it possible to save a document in read only mode?
> for example: i write and save my document in read only mode to becomes
> unchangable like pdf documents?
> thanks for your help and god bless you all.
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Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Online

[Bo Siltberg]

The site wants me to install a client, what is this client used for?
My antivirus program claims it contained "Variant.Graftor.5639" and deleted
it...

2016-04-25 4:07 GMT+02:00 Cley Faye :

> The usability issue might be related to the fact that it is an online
> service, and is subject to bandwidth and computing power restriction.
>
> To truly evaluate such service, it might be better to just grab the code
> and deploy it in local. If it works well enough, I can see this being
> useful in corporate environments.
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> 2016-04-25 3:49 GMT+02:00 Marc Grober :
>
> > At least on-line at open365.io it seems completely unusable. Though you
> > can access the KDE, the application simply never comes up.
> > And documentation requires that you open the application, rofl...
> >
> >
> > On 4/24/16 3:19 PM, Pedro wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > Sharing exciting news
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-l10n-LibreOffice-on-the-cloud-Open365-tp4181681.html
> > >
> > > It links to the brand new
> > >
> > > https://open365.io/
> > >
> > > I just opened an account and it behaves exactly like the offline
> version.
> > > You can even change the icon theme or add extensions like dictionaries
> > (and
> > > they work!)
> > >
> > > The only limitation is that the interface is in US English only.
> > >
> > > Have fun!
> > >
> > > (I'm not affiliated to the company providing the service, in fact I
> > couldn't
> > > find any information about it so I wouldn't recommend uploading any
> > > sensitive information...)
> > >
> > >
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 5.0.5.2 writer freezes during save on Win 7

[Bo Siltberg]

Thank you for a very good answer.
I'll wait for the 5.1.4 release then.


2016-05-11 14:36 GMT+02:00 V Stuart Foote <vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu>:

> @Bo, *
>
> Bo Siltberg wrote
> > Sometimes during save, the progress bar freezes, mostly somewhere close
> to
> > the middle. Usually the saving continues after a few seconds but someones
> > LO freeze and never recover. The only way out is to kill the process.
> This
> > happens in win 7, not on win 10. The progress bar freeze on both systems,
> > it is only in win 7 it sometimes does not continue.
> >
> > Looks like it helps to "warm up" the system, do a small change, save, do
> > another small change and save. If no hanging so far, then the following
> > saves in this session usually works.
> >
> > The document is large, more than 900 pages, so it usually takes some 30
> > seconds to save when it works.
> >
> > Anyone know how to track this down? Do the "usual support action" to
> > delete
> > my profile??
>
> That seems the same issue of  tdf#93553
> <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93553>   which has
> been
> fixed, on master and for the 5.1.4 release. But will not likely be back
> ported to the 5.0 branch.
>
> You can check to see if it works better for you with a parallel /A admin
> install  of a current build of master or the daily build of the 5.1.4
> branch. Or upgrade to 5.1.4 when released mid-June.
>
> Stuart
>
> =-ref-=
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[libreoffice-users] LO 5.0.5.2 writer freezes during save on Win 7

[Bo Siltberg]

Sometimes during save, the progress bar freezes, mostly somewhere close to
the middle. Usually the saving continues after a few seconds but someones
LO freeze and never recover. The only way out is to kill the process. This
happens in win 7, not on win 10. The progress bar freeze on both systems,
it is only in win 7 it sometimes does not continue.

Looks like it helps to "warm up" the system, do a small change, save, do
another small change and save. If no hanging so far, then the following
saves in this session usually works.

The document is large, more than 900 pages, so it usually takes some 30
seconds to save when it works.

Anyone know how to track this down? Do the "usual support action" to delete
my profile??

Thanks
Bo

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Page formatting in writer goes nuts

[Bo Siltberg]

Thanks,

Minimizing the window did not have any effect.
I have also tried to use master and sub-documents long time ago, not sure
why I abandoned that idea but I think it was something with slowness or
pagination errors during update of the master document. Besides I had to
manually fix all references to chapters etc. But it might be worth a try
again.

I have also tried to reproduce the problem using the LO user guide, but
failed so far. I thought it could have something to do with wrapping text
on the side since I have lots of pictures aligned to the right of the page
and text to the left, so I changed some figures in the LO UG but failed to
reproduce.

Anyhow, since this does not appear to be a known problem, I guess I will
continue to track down this error to see if I can pinpoint it better. Any
other ideas are welcome. It could be that the document is broken. It comes
originally from Google docs (the old version of gdoc), later converted to
OpenOffice and now LibreOffice. I think I will try to compare the xml in
the archive with the LO UG doc or another fresh document to see if I can
spot anything odd. Maybe I should try to make a new file and paste the old
doc, hoping that eventual errors stays behind? I am unable to export a
xhtml btw, LO hangs. Not sure if that indicates an error in the document?



2016-09-04 23:34 GMT+02:00 Wiebe van der Worp <w...@vanderworp.org>:

> On 04-09-16 20:26, Bo Siltberg wrote:
>
>> I have a large document with lots of pictures currently using LO 5.1.5.2.
>> After doing some editing, the page formatting function kicks in
>> automatically but does a bad job, inserting page breaks randomly and lots
>> of empty pages in sequence.
>>
>
> I am not sure it finishes, it looks like the process times out, or worse,
> crashes.
>
> You could try to use a master document (.odm) with smaller sub-documents.
> It does not solve the problem, formatting is still stopping, but
> reformatting every sub-document/satellite can be forced after opening the
> odm, before exporting to pdf and or printing. On the other hand, if your
> document just opens correctly, you are probably creating extra work with
> this procedure.
>
> From http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg46555.html
>
> ===
> * Open document
> * Update index
> * Update selection for every satellite (using navigator)
> * Update index again
> * Export to PDF for printing and distribution
> ===
>
> I have got the impression that it is the pictures LO has
>> problem with since most of these extra page breaks are made where there
>> are
>> pictures nearby.
>>
>
> I agree. And calculating columns goes wrong too in certain large documents.
>
> I have tried anchored them to the paragraph or as a
>> character without any effect that I can see. Closing and reopen the
>> document clears the problem as the initial page formatting works fine.
>>
>
> I did some testing with the large LO-manuals from
> https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/. They don't suffer
> from this problem, despite the large amount of pictures. This is described
> further in the link to the thread above. These pictures are in a frame,
> with the frame anchored as (not to) character, always followed by an enter.
>
> Unfortunately this causes a lot of white space left and or right from the
> frame when small pictures or listings are involved.
>
>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Page formatting in writer goes nuts

[Bo Siltberg]

I have only one page style, the *Default style*, where I have adjusted the
margins a bit, no more.
I guess I should have created my own page style.
It could very well be that I have misused the styles concept for paragraphs
and characters too.

2016-09-05 20:45 GMT+02:00 Bruce Byfield <bbyfi...@axion.net>:

> >> On 04-09-16 20:26, Bo Siltberg wrote:
> >>> I have a large document with lots of pictures currently using LO
> >>> 5.1.5.2.
> >>> After doing some editing, the page formatting function kicks in
> >>> automatically but does a bad job, inserting page breaks randomly and
> >>> lots
> >>> of empty pages in sequence.
>
> How are you inserting page styles? Are you using the Next Style field on
> the Organizer page for page styles?
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Page formatting in writer goes nuts

[Bo Siltberg]

Sorry, yes, it points to itself.

2016-09-05 23:25 GMT+02:00 Bruce Byfield <bbyfi...@axion.net>:

> How do you actually apply page styles? Your description of what is
> happening sounds as though you have applied page styles simply by
> clicking on the page, but, from your last reply, that isn't what you
> have done.
>
> Does your Default style have itself as the next style?
>
> On September 5, 2016 08:57:35 PM Bo Siltberg wrote:
> >I have only one page style, the *Default style*, where I have adjusted
> >the margins a bit, no more.
> >I guess I should have created my own page style.
> >It could very well be that I have misused the styles concept for
> >paragraphs and characters too.
> >
> >2016-09-05 20:45 GMT+02:00 Bruce Byfield <bbyfi...@axion.net>:
> >> >> On 04-09-16 20:26, Bo Siltberg wrote:
> >> >>> I have a large document with lots of pictures currently using LO
> >> >>> 5.1.5.2.
> >> >>> After doing some editing, the page formatting function kicks in
> >> >>> automatically but does a bad job, inserting page breaks randomly
> >> >>> and
> >> >>> lots
> >> >>> of empty pages in sequence.
> >>
> >> How are you inserting page styles? Are you using the Next Style field
> >> on the Organizer page for page styles?
> >>
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[libreoffice-users] Page formatting in writer goes nuts

[Bo Siltberg]

I have a large document with lots of pictures currently using LO 5.1.5.2.
After doing some editing, the page formatting function kicks in
automatically but does a bad job, inserting page breaks randomly and lots
of empty pages in sequence. The total page count may increase with some 10%
due to this. I have got the impression that it is the pictures LO has
problem with since most of these extra page breaks are made where there are
pictures nearby. I have tried anchored them to the paragraph or as a
character without any effect that I can see. Closing and reopen the
document clears the problem as the initial page formatting works fine.

This is actually a very old problem, originating from the time I used OO. I
have been hoping this was a known problem and worked with. But I am a bit
confused as to where to search for the question, if it has been brought up
before. Anyone knows about this?

Thanks
Bo

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Page formatting in writer goes nuts

[Bo Siltberg]

Thanks but I think I have those options under control, nothing strange
there. Please note that the page formatting is fine just after loading the
document.

2016-09-04 20:42 GMT+02:00 Tony Arnold <tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk>:

> Bo,
>
> On Sun, 2016-09-04 at 20:26 +0200, Bo Siltberg wrote:
>
> I have a large document with lots of pictures currently using LO 5.1.5.2.
> After doing some editing, the page formatting function kicks in
> automatically but does a bad job, inserting page breaks randomly and lots
> of empty pages in sequence. The total page count may increase with some 10%
> due to this. I have got the impression that it is the pictures LO has
> problem with since most of these extra page breaks are made where there are
> pictures nearby. I have tried anchored them to the paragraph or as a
> character without any effect that I can see. Closing and reopen the
> document clears the problem as the initial page formatting works fine.
>
> This is actually a very old problem, originating from the time I used OO. I
> have been hoping this was a known problem and worked with. But I am a bit
> confused as to where to search for the question, if it has been brought up
> before. Anyone knows about this?
>
>
> Have a look at the style definitions for your paragraphs and headings and
> look at the Text Flow tab. In there there are a couple of sections on
> Breaks and Options. The latter has options for orphan control and widow
> control which I think could have an effect on what you see.
>
> Regards,
> Tony.
>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Writing large or complex documents

[Bo Siltberg]

I too have that book on the reading list, it's been there for too long now..

As I show in the other thread, the image problem does not seem to be
(solely) related to "large" documents as I could reproduce one kind of
error in a one-page document.

Otherwise I guess a document can be as large as it need to be and still be
manageable. There is for example a difference in need between a book
written from top to bottom and a large technical specification which is
updated here and there and that contains internal references back and
forth. It was quite some time since I evaluated the master document
function, maybe it has evolved now to handle navigation and references
better than in the past?


2016-09-08 16:51 GMT+02:00 Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster <
webmas...@krackedpress.com>:

>
> On 09/07/2016 11:02 PM, Bruce Byfield wrote:
>
>> On September 8, 2016 01:40:46 AM Wiebe van der Worp wrote:
>>
> 
>
>> You might also want to take the time to download my book (which is free)
>> and ready the chapter on frames. It represents my best thinking on this
>> problem, offering two different approaches, neither of which is
>> completely satisfactory:
>>
>> http://designingwithlibreoffice.com/download-buy/
>>
>> On the whole, the table solution is the most flexible, but having lots
>> of tables does increase the file size.
>>
>> Thanks fro the reminder of the book link.
>
> I downloaded it and forgot about it.  I have not had a chance to do more
> than a fast look through.
>
> Thanks for your work on this book, as well.
>
>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Page formatting in writer goes nuts

[Bo Siltberg]

Thank you Wiebe for updating the existing bug report, that should be
enough. However their reply indicates that it may be difficult to solve.
Not sure that status *needinfo* means, if they want more info from us. I
hope they will take a look at this bug as it is easy to reproduce.

I have seen similar problems with pagination in tables and frames too,
where no pictures were involved. Starting with this pic bug, I hope it may
solve some other bug too related to page formatting.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Page formatting in writer goes nuts

[Bo Siltberg]

Thank you, I tried your document and it indeed demonstrated an unpleasant
behaviour.
May it is time to file a bug report in the hope that this can be corrected.
I hope I am free to attach your example as well?


2016-09-09 21:07 GMT+02:00 Wiebe van der Worp <w...@vanderworp.org>:

> On 07-09-16 20:57, Bo Siltberg wrote:
>
> I was able to delete all other text in this document and still reproduce
>> the error. That's good. (The screen shots were taken before that.) I have
>> uploaded this mini version of the LO Users Guide
>> <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzKxVP7gn2uTNzVvTjZCOU9jN0U> where
>> this
>> error can be reproduced, at least by me. I would appreciate if someone
>> else
>> could confirm the behaviour that I see. Just place the cursor above the
>> large picture, hit enter / backspace back and forth, which sometimes will
>> make the large picture disappear. This is LO 5.1.5.2 but I do see the
>> problem in 5.2 as well.
>>
>
> I could reproduce the behaviour as you described. It is odd that the big
> frame plus picture cover the margins, but that doesn't seem to be the
> problem.
>
> The picture below is anchored as paragraph and that "explains" the
> behaviour, magical disappearance, after giving an enter.
>
> Anchoring the second picture as character makes it stable again. And
> making a bit more space between the picture by putting an empty paragraph
> before the anchor of the second picture works as well.
>
> It made me a bit curious, maybe the document is a bit contaminated, maybe
> something else. So what I did is saving the bitmaps, saved text as ascii,
> created a brand new document, inserted everything and, surprise, exact the
> same problem. So a one page document with two pictures is enough to get
> into trouble. Even worse, if the pictures are removed from the frame, same
> result.
>
> If you would like to give it a try: http://media.vanderworp.org/.d
> ot/.lo/test_s03e24.odt
>

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Page formatting in writer goes nuts

[Bo Siltberg]

I have noticed another odd behaviour which may be related to the "picture
problem" vs page formatting.

I have a page in my large doc with only text. This first picture shows the
content when the document is freshly loaded.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzKxVP7gn2uTTTJSdzBBUkNRQ00
Then, after a change somewhere (that does not affect the page count), bot
sure exactly what triggers it, it becomes
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzKxVP7gn2uTT3ZJdzA1cHp3U2c

Notice that the spacing between the lines has increased and that the last
line from the first picture now has spilled over to next page.
Of course, this creates seemingly unmotivated changes in the page
formatting.
Anyone has an idea what is going on here and if I can influence this
behaviour?

Thanks


2016-09-10 16:59 GMT+02:00 Bo Siltberg <bo.siltb...@telia.com>:

> Thank you Wiebe for updating the existing bug report, that should be
> enough. However their reply indicates that it may be difficult to solve.
> Not sure that status *needinfo* means, if they want more info from us. I
> hope they will take a look at this bug as it is easy to reproduce.
>
> I have seen similar problems with pagination in tables and frames too,
> where no pictures were involved. Starting with this pic bug, I hope it may
> solve some other bug too related to page formatting.
>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Page formatting in writer goes nuts

[Bo Siltberg]

Thanks for that information. The article do show that it actually is a
known problem, a very old problem. I'm glad to see that.

I have managed to reproduce a strange error regarding pictures using the LO
Users Guide. There seem to be a case with a (large) picture anchored as
character followed by a smaller picture anchored to paragraph. The second
picture is also wrapped with text to its left, but I have not tested if
that is a condition for this error to occur. The picture 1
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzKxVP7gn2uTYlpLa1UxUDRWWjA>shows this
setup. I just took two pictures in the document and arranged them as
described above. Note that frame1 (first picture) comes before frame2 (2nd
pic) in the image list to the left.

Now, when adding or deleting text before the first picture, it will
sometimes disappear as seen in picture 2
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzKxVP7gn2uTclpnU3VNV182N0E> As you can
see, the disappeared picture created lots of free space, the document
became smaller so I could image this would confuse the page formatting
function. Note that the order between frame1 and 2 has changed. The first
picture has been moved after the second. So where did it go? By clicking on
frame1 I found the picture at the bottom of the page, invisible, spanning
two pages, see picture 3
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzKxVP7gn2uTS2E0Zm9PZ3V2ZmM> Odd indeed.

I was able to delete all other text in this document and still reproduce
the error. That's good. (The screen shots were taken before that.) I have
uploaded this mini version of the LO Users Guide
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzKxVP7gn2uTNzVvTjZCOU9jN0U> where this
error can be reproduced, at least by me. I would appreciate if someone else
could confirm the behaviour that I see. Just place the cursor above the
large picture, hit enter / backspace back and forth, which sometimes will
make the large picture disappear. This is LO 5.1.5.2 but I do see the
problem in 5.2 as well.

A work around is to place the small picture and its text to the left in a
two-column table, and keep the large picture anchored as character - that
appears to work fine. The picture in the table is also anchored as
character if that makes difference. I guess that it may take time to find
and resolve this error in LO so I will need to apply this work around. But
I have more than 1000 pictures in my doc so I need to gather some strength
first before taking that step...

btw, this was one (1) scenario - I can only hope it is the only scenario
that makes LO mess up the page formatting.


2016-09-06 20:53 GMT+02:00 Bruce Byfield <bbyfi...@axion.net>:

> My questions were an effort to determine whether how you were using
> styles was the problem. Unfortunately, from your answers, I don't  think
> so.
>
> However, there are some longstanding quirks in how frames and images
> work that usually kick in when there are lots of images.
>
> I don't know any easy way to correct your problem, but in future you
> might try placing images in a table, as described in this article:
>
> http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-
> Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/The-mysteries-of-positioning-pictures-in-LibreOffice-
> OpenOffice
>
> This solution limits options for text wrapping, but does seem to make
> pictures stay where you place them.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> On September 6, 2016 05:05:12 AM Bo Siltberg wrote:
> >Sorry, yes, it points to itself.
> >
> >2016-09-05 23:25 GMT+02:00 Bruce Byfield <bbyfi...@axion.net>:
> >> How do you actually apply page styles? Your description of what is
> >> happening sounds as though you have applied page styles simply by
> >> clicking on the page, but, from your last reply, that isn't what you
> >> have done.
> >>
> >> Does your Default style have itself as the next style?
> >>
> >> On September 5, 2016 08:57:35 PM Bo Siltberg wrote:
> >> >I have only one page style, the *Default style*, where I have
> >> >adjusted
> >> >the margins a bit, no more.
> >> >I guess I should have created my own page style.
> >> >It could very well be that I have misused the styles concept for
> >> >paragraphs and characters too.
> >> >
> >> >2016-09-05 20:45 GMT+02:00 Bruce Byfield <bbyfi...@axion.net>:
> >> >> >> On 04-09-16 20:26, Bo Siltberg wrote:
> >> >> >>> I have a large document with lots of pictures currently using
> >> >> >>> LO
> >> >> >>> 5.1.5.2.
> >> >> >>> After doing some editing, the page formatting function kicks
> >> >> >>> in
> >> >> >>> automatically but does a bad job, inserting page breaks
> >&

Re: [libreoffice-users] Making hyperlink within Writer document?

[Bo Siltberg]

How do you want to modify them?

References are created with Ctrl-F2 which brings up the Fields meny, choose
tab Cross-references.
There you can create own reference targets, or insert a reference to either
an own reference or to a chapter (or something else).
What kind of reference are you using?

It sounds like your references have moved. Maybe the easiest way is to
create a new reference. It sounds like you want a reference to a chapter,
so simply go into C-F2, select Headings in the left menu, choose how the
reference shall appear in the menu under, and then select the chapter in
the menu to the right.



2016-10-15 15:39 GMT+02:00 csanyipal :

> Hi,
>
> I have created last year a LibreOffice Writer document that has about 60
> pages.
> In this document I created hyperlinks within this document.
> Hyperlinks links pages.. say, I click on such hyperlink, and I get moved to
> another page in the same document.
>
> The problem is, I forgot how did I these hyperlinks..
> Now I want to modify some of these hyperlinks but do not know ho to do it?
>
> I can see only that that when I click on such a hyperlink, I get moved to a
> beginning of a title on another page.
>
> Please help me remember how can I modify these hyperlinks!
>
>
>
> -
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> Pál
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Search and Replace: Line Breaks

[Bo Siltberg]

Actually, it is possible by using the extension "alternative searching". I
got version 1.4.2 installed.
Tools -> Extension manager... -> Get more extensions online

Just insert \p in the replace field for a paragraph break or \n for a line
break.

This extension is also good for searching for the contents of a hyperlink
(the target link, not the visible text) and cross references.


2017-08-22 22:23 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Berlasso :

> 2017-08-22 20:39 GMT+02:00 jonathon :
>
> > All:
> >
> > Is there a way to insert line breaks, using Search and Replace?  If so,
> > how?
> >
>
> Line breaks (Shift-Enter) or paragraph breaks (just Enter)?
>
> You can search ($) and replace (\n) paragraph breaks with regular
> expressions. You can search for line breaks too (\n... yes, I know it is
> confusing), but AFAIK there is no way to insert line breaks with the search
> and replace tool.
>
> Regards,
> Ricardo
>
>
>
>
> >
> > jonathon
> >
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Search and Replace: Line Breaks

[Bo Siltberg]

It would be great if AltSearch could be integrated in LO. This extension
seem to be implemented as a macro today and is dreadfully slow.

2017-08-25 0:30 GMT+02:00 jonathon :

>
>
> On 08/24/2017 11:26 AM, Philip Jackson wrote:
> > On 24/08/17 05:00, jonathon wrote:
> >> If you need to use Regex in LibO, you need to install the Alt-Search
> >> extension.
> >
> > Not so.  See 'Find and Replace' > Other Options > Regular expressions
>
> That doesn't insert line breaks, or paragraph breaks.
> Alt-Search does insert line breaks, or paragraph breaks.
>
> jonathon
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Sorting in a Table

[Bo Siltberg]

Install the extension *sortwritertable* which can sort tables.
*Tools -> Extension Manager...*

2018-07-07 21:42 GMT+02:00 Ted Zimmer :

> Microsoft Word allows sorting in a table by date, but apparently LO Writer
> does not.  Am I correct?  Is there a way to do it?
> Ted
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[libreoffice-users] Images silently disappears from write document

[Bo Siltberg]

Hi,

I have a large document with lots of images.
All image files are stored on disk externally from the document, in a
directory just beside the odt file. I use relative links to them from the
odt file (inserting them as link).

Now and then, *a large amount of images suddenly disappears from the odt*
as if they never were inserted into the document. I see this fault first
after having closed and reopened the document. I have lost about 100 images
each time...

The image file itself is intact, nothing wrong with it. I can insert it
again.
I have never *seen* that an image gets missing when I just do save, but
since close and open does not update the file(?), the bug seem to occur "in
the background" during save. After save, the images are still there in the
opened document and I can continue adding more.

The image count in *Files->Properties->Statistics* still show the correct
old number as it should be when I open a faulty odt, but I am uncertain how
this count is kept, whether it actually counts the image tags. It's
behaviour is strange. What does the reset button do? When fiddling around
with reset, OK and other stuff I suddenly see a lower image count here
which probably reflects the true amount. I have monitored this count in
order to detect when images disappear, but obviously that count was a false
indication. I suspect the fault occur at save, but I don't *see* the fault
until I close and reopen the document?

The missing images are not part of the *Edit->Links to external files*...
And they are not part of the *Images* list in the *Navigator*.
If I open the xml file inside the odt, there is no trace of the image at
the place where it should be located.
So, the image is truly gone from the xml code.

One interesting observation is that images of type *.svg* seem to create a
png copy inside LO, which is stored in the Pictures directory of the odt. I
have noticed that LO sometimes fails to write all of them. Some may be
missing, but after opening the document and saving it again, they reappear
(not 100.0% sure about this).

I'm using the latest stable version 6.4.x of libreoffice.
I first saw this problem in September. Not sure for how long it has been
there.
The document has about 1400 pages with about 1800 images. I *am* aware of
its size...
It has an old history, starting in the old version of Google Docs, to
openoffice and then to libreoffice writer. I wonder if there is a way to
"clean" the xml file?

To my question, is this a known problem? Is redmine the place to report it?

A more pressing question is *how I can monitor this bug. How do a get a
true count of images* in the document that I can use regularly to monitor
this? I cannot get a grip on the behaviour of the statistics page. Do I
need to write a macro, or a python script that reads the odt?

I can try 1000 things to isolate this bug, but I stop here in case someone
can point me in a good direction.

Thanks
Bo

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Re: [libreoffice-users] REGEX difficulty

[Bo Siltberg]

What flavour of regex are we talking about?
Can you show us how you get three matches here.
I can only see that there will be one match, 29, 79 or 97.
Furthermore, if you intend to use this as a "lookahead", there is something
missing in the regex, the prefix that shall be matched if it is followed by
one of these numbers, and in this case, only 29 will make that prefix match.
If you provide the help description of the parameters to REGEX() I'm sure
we can find an explanation of its behaviour.


Den fre 21 maj 2021 kl 18:22 skrev David Lynch :

> If I use the REGEX tester 
>
> with regular expression (?=(29|79|97))
>
> and test string 29791
>
> I get 3 matches 29, 97,79, as I expect.
>
> On the other hand, if I enter =REGEX("29791","(?=(29|79|97))",,1)
>
> I get a zero length string.
>
> Can anyone help please?
>
> David Lynch
>
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