Re: [libreoffice-users] How to switch between impress slideshow and another application

in this case it's possible to prepare the content beforehand). On Unity (or other WM), this second solution might work where Alt+Tab doesn't. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffi

Re: [libreoffice-users] csv problem

2014/1/7 piergio > Hi all > > I'm trying to open (or import in a calc file) a csv file (ubuntu 13.10 - > libre office). > I have this error: > "I dati non sono stati caricati interamente perché è stato superato il > numero massimo di caratteri per cella." > (Data have not been loaded completely b

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing a Language Pack

2014/1/8 > I would appreciate if you could indicate what I need to do to install > these language packages to have access > to the corresponding spellers but leaving the user interface as is, in > English. > If I remember this correctly, Linux version of Libreoffice use system's dictionnaries to

Re: [libreoffice-users] ASCII Filter Options - Help please!

2014/1/10 Jacob Marioni > Hello. LibreOffice has been wonderful up until recently. > > All of my ODT won't open properly. Every time I try to open a .odt file, > the > 'ASCII Filter Options' comes up. These are all normal text files and this > has never happened before. When the filter options op

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ASCII Filter Options - Help please!

2014/1/10 Jacob Marioni > -I tried changing my "user profile", but that didn't work > > -When I open the files with Notepad, the text is in a different language: > Ḣ鈓䣪桠榤嘳斵䬝ꎆ붏蟀뵔䔽얩턖ѳ腵超쉫뱁䎾⻩䃬➤ > > -I'll try to upload the file so people can look at it, but how do I do > that? > Can I just upload it

Re: [libreoffice-users] [HS] ODT and ZIP files (was: ASCII Filter Options - Help please!)

2014/1/10 Tom Davies > I tried opening with GEdit (= a lot like Notepad) but the 1st 2 > letters were not PK and then i checked a different Odt that someone > else sent me earlier and that did start with PK. I'm not convinced > about the whole PK thing but it's interesting > ​As we all know, OD

Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice untitled docs constantly autosaving

2014/1/12 John King > On 09/01/14 15:36, Tom Davies wrote: > >> Hi :) >> It might be worth contacting the openSuSE forums to ask in there, >> http://forums.opensuse.org/ >> errr, right now their forums are down for maintenance but will >> probably be up by the time you read this. Jic it isn't th

Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice untitled docs constantly autosaving

ll have to report this issue to the Opensuse folks. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2014/1/12 Cley Faye > 2014/1/12 John King > >> On 09/01/14 15:36, Tom Davies wrote: >> >>> Hi :) >>> It might be worth contacting the openSuSE forums to ask in there, >&

Re: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs.

mber that ODT files are used by many pieces of software, not only LibreOffice. OpenOffice of course, but some part of google export, some less-known office suite, various custom software that output their reports as odt files... even mso got to implement it. I doubt a new version of the standard woul

Re: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs

2014/1/13 frank ernest > Acctually I thought that it was kinda obvious and I was thinking that > you'd want to fix it before your ODT standard was widly adopted. > It would be easier to change the code of 10 programs then 1000 once you > finally retire the standard. > You could also develop a spl

Re: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs

2014/1/16 frank ernest > >Also, you should warn microsoft before their docx stuff get in the wild > >too, as they also use the zip file format. > > Here I thought that some of the ideas behind opensource was that it would > promote > better/some kind of standards. > > It's ok though. There are gr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nikolai Cassanova: Hi, I am having problems with OLE objects in microsoft word documents

s (I believe the default software available on Ubuntu are able to deal with zip files). Once open as a zip archive, you'll most likely see the file somewhere.​ -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libr

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] how many languages can LO support at the same time. . .

2014-01-27 Kracked_P_P---webmaster > > The problem I have with "selling" LO to computer centers, both regular and > ones that teach English as a second language, is how many languages can LO > support at the same time. > > I am talking about two ways. 1 - usable dictionaries in the list. 2 - >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 charles meyer > I've got 3 or so separate PDF files. > > I'd like to merge them all into one PDF file in Writer in Office 3.6.2.2 > > Each page of each PDF file has a lot of empty space around the graphic > image. > > Ex. 2 inches above and below the graphic on each page and a good 3 >

Re: [libreoffice-users] FYI: LO's security system is compromised, please be careful

2014-01-29 Sayt Bahal > It turned out that LibreOffice has a security-related issue ( > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51819), that makes it save > the > AutoRecovery files for password-protected documents without any protection > (encryption). > > It essentially means, that with Au

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 Anthony Baldwin > When clients send me pdf files full of images to be translated, > I often just snap a screenshot of them and manage the images in GIMP. > In such cases, I am reconstructing their document in LO (in English, > whereas the originals come to me in any of French, Portugu

Re: [libreoffice-users] A word of warning about PDF text

2014-01-31 Peter West : > A word of warning about text retrieved from PDF documents. > > Recovering text blocks from PDFs is inherently risky. PDF is a page > definition format, and so it has no notion of the semantics of the text it > contains. It places bits of text at certain positions on the

Re: [libreoffice-users] automation

2014-02-02 Jean MAURICE : > Is there a way to 'drive' libre office from another application like we > can do with excel: > > lnexcel = CREATEOBJECT("excel.application") > > In fact, I have a Visual Foxpro app who will have to drive Excel or Calc > depending of its client. I'd like to know if I can

Re: [libreoffice-users] Download earlier version of libreoffice

2014-02-06 Viggo Fedreheim : > hi. > I need to download version 3.8 of libreoffice, wher can i get it? > You can try this: http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/ However there doesn't seem to be a 3.8 version... hm.​​ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@globa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Review of AndrOpen Office (was: Re: What do you think of AndrOpenOffice?)

2014-02-06 James E Lang : > There is also a LO based app but I definitely do NOT recommend it for any > serious work YET. I installed it a few months ago but then uninstalled it > again as it was definitely not all that usable. Now I don't know where to > get it to test it again (help anyone?). >

Re: [libreoffice-users] L.O. 4.0.5 pb enregistrement fichier

Le 7 février 2014 10:14, emmauel73 a écrit : > Bonjour, > > je viens de déplacer, via l'utilitaire robotcopy, des fichiers vers un > nouveau serveur de fichier. L'ouverture des fichiers Libre Office sur ce > nouveau serveur ne pose pas de problème, en revanche il m'est impossible de > les sauveg

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: L.O. 4.0.5 pb enregistrement fichier

2014-02-07 emmanuel73 : > les fichiers sont accessibles via un lecteur réseau monté par GPO > \\nom du serveur\partage$\ > > > je viens d'essayer de puger le profil libre office mais sans résultat. > > Un vieux problème similaire, dont je ne sais pas si il est résolu​​, était lié à l'extension pou

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: L.O. 4.0.5 pb enregistrement fichier

2014-02-07 Tom Davies : > Hi :) > I also often find that LibreOffice doesn't let me save over the top of > files stored on our network file-shares. It only does seem to work if > using the same computer. When i go to a different machine i use that > as an opportunity to add/upodate a version num

Re: [libreoffice-users] Export PDF

7;t open PDF/A-1, while these same files would open fine on pretty much anything: gnome document viewer, kde viewer (okular), foxit on windows... Pretty funny if you consider that PDF/A-1 is supposed to work for long term storage. You should double-check that your files open with this certain reader, just

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Corrupted Calc Display of Excel File

2014-02-10 2:08 GMT+01:00 Pedro : > In case someone is following this thread, ​We are ;)​ > I received the file by mail and > the error described was a consequence of the functions used if some cells > were not filled in. Therefore it wasn't a bug in the 4.1 branch. > > The file did reveal so

Re: [libreoffice-users] Neat Writer Feature -- Relative Font Sizes

2014-02-13 23:55 GMT+01:00 e-letter : > > OK, fair enough but as a latex user, was amazed to read a claim that > LO provides greater control! :) > ​They are tools. Power users of each tools will find that they are on the "better" side. Some peoples feel that latex, with all the commands everywhe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Getting Hyperlinks to work in pdf exports

2014-02-19 14:26 GMT+01:00 CVAlkan : > Hi: > > I'm currently using LO Version: 4.3.0.0.alpha0+ on 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04LTS, > but have run into this issue in the past with earlier versions. > > If I create a phrase and format it as a hyperlink, control+clicking on it > launches the browser and goes

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Getting Hyperlinks to work in pdf exports

2014-02-19 18:43 GMT+01:00 CVAlkan : > Cley: > > Thanks much for the response. I mentioned that I had the same problem > earlier, and happen to also have version 4.2 on my machine as well (I > needed > to use the 4.3 beta with my major project because of a specific bug that it > fixed). I have the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compress images

2014-02-27 23:28 GMT+01:00 Dale Rebgetz : > I too am very familiar with the various third party methods mentioned > below, but we must try to address the problem from the point of view of the > OP. He was made aware of a very simple tool in Word that did exactly what > he wanted. *How* it achieved

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice 4 corrupting Calc files

2014-03-02 7:00 GMT+01:00 "J. Van Brimmer" : > Hello, > > I'm new to the list, so if this is an inappropriate subject, please let me > know. > > I am using Libreoffice on Manjaro Linux. Over the last several months the > version has been regularly updated. The currently installed version is: > "Ve

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost money

2014-03-03 10:21 GMT+01:00 : > I donated Japanese yen through MasterCard on 3 Mar. 2014 to get > LIBREOFFICE by your internet form ,but the softwear could not downloaded. > > Please send me how to download. > From this page: http://www.libreoffice.org/download​​ You can download LibreOffice for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compress images

2014-02-28 2:16 GMT+01:00 Cley Faye : > As a "proof of concept", I put together a java program that take an odt > file as input. You can then set the "requested" DPI and jpeg quality, and > save. At this point, every pictures that are larger than needed (that's w

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compress images

2014-03-05 6:57 GMT+01:00 Thomas : > (2014/03/05 12:23), Cley Faye wrote: > >> 2014-02-28 2:16 GMT+01:00 Cley Faye : >> >> If anyone want to give it a try here's the jar. It's highly unlikely to >>> corrupt your source file (the source file is n

Re: [libreoffice-users] same calc sheet in 2 windows?

2014-03-06 22:49 GMT+01:00 John R. Sowden : > On 03/06/2014 01:34 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > >> At 13:20 06/03/2014 -0800, John R. Sowden wrote: >> >>> I have a calc sheet about 600 lines long with data at the top that I >>> would like to see while I an using the data at, say line 400. Is it >>> p

Re: [libreoffice-users] Where are the file checksums?

2014-03-10 22:19 GMT+01:00 Girvin Herr : > Greetings, > I have just downloaded the 4.1.5 version. However, I cannot find the > file/page containing the file checksums on the website to verify I have > good files. Before the website had been revamped lately, these files which > contained the chec

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc worksheet stalls when opening. Solved!

2014-03-14 11:41 GMT+01:00 William Drago : > All, > > I tried Tom's suggestion and opened the file with Gnumerics. This awesome > little program opened the spreadsheet and let me know what was wrong with > it: > > Unable to load the file 'https://retiretxn300. > fidelity.com/images/savings2/alert.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc worksheet stalls when opening. Solved!

can't test this extensively. 2014-03-14 12:26 GMT+01:00 William Drago : > Did you try embedded those images in a LO spreadsheet to see if they load, > or did you just open them in your browser? > > -Bill > > > On 3/14/2014 7:00 AM, Cley Faye wrote: > >> 2014-0

Re: [libreoffice-users] ODF 1.x vs 1.2

2014-03-14 11:33 GMT+01:00 Tanstaafl : > Hi all, > > Ok, I was wondering about this. > > How do I tell what version of the ODF standard any of my individual files > are? > > I tried opening a spreadsheet (.ods) and checked File > Properties, but > nothing in there about the PDF version... > ​Open

Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows-Mac compatibility

t a smooth transition between both OS. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2014-03-16 15:11 GMT+01:00 Lorenzo Pii : > Dear all, > I'm interested in experiences for cross compatibility between Windows and > Mac for Calc. Is it fully compatible or only partially? I have a file on > dropb

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Document

with the one in the sub-document. If this does fix your issue, remember to change only styles in the master document to keep all of them "in sync".​ ​Of course, if that's not the issue at hand, feel free to dismiss my little rant :)​ -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net -- To un

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

2014-03-25 14:33 GMT+01:00 Kracked_P_P---webmaster < webmas...@krackedpress.com>: > I was taught K.I.S.S as a programmer, and I have not removed that idea in > my documents. ​A small comment on the KISS concept: "simple" does not necessarily mean minimalist, or immediately accessible, it can mea

Re: [libreoffice-users] shutdown glitch

t do its cleanup. > > Any suggestions? > ​You should check the macro to find how it's closing libreoffice (which function is called or something like that). Maybe there was a change in API since the OOo time and it is dependant on something deprecated/broken.​ -- Cley Faye http:

Re: [libreoffice-users] shutdown glitch

2014-03-27 23:52 GMT+01:00 rmg : > ​​ > if HasUnoInterfaces(doc, "com.sun.star.util.Xcloseable") > doc.close(TRUE) > else > doc.dispose() > End if > > as I said lifted straight from the macro examples; the Libreoffice API > reference seems to say that's right. > ​I'm not very fluent in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Errors in LO 4.1 but not in LO 3.5

2014-03-28 13:34 GMT+01:00 Marion & Noel Lodge : > My macro is expecting a single value, but under v4.1 it has three values, > so it's obvious why it is throwing the error. > > In both cases I have used the Java version 1.6.0_29, so I cannot work out > why there is this difference in the way the O

Re: [libreoffice-users] Errors in LO 4.1 but not in LO 3.5

2014-03-29 21:29 GMT+01:00 James E Lang : > Oh dear! So let me get this straight. Old macros might not work with newer > versions of LO. > > I realize that backward compatibility leads to "bloat" when carried to the > extreme but shouldn't the older specification be deprecated but still > supporte

Re: [libreoffice-users] MSO for iPad, big deal or big yawn

tphone? Maybe the ability to read a document is interesting, but that's it. However, tablets have decent screen estate, and can easily be combined with mouse/keyboard as needed, while being more convenient than a whole laptop. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net -- To unsu

Re: [libreoffice-users] old versions

some work, but way easier than keeping old versions in the long term :)​ -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki

Re: [libreoffice-users] Any reason why resizing an image does not keep aspect ration by default?

: the current one, which is relatively "user friendly", and a second one, more like the "about:config" page in firefox. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Retrofitting a template to a document

2014-04-17 7:37 GMT+02:00 Toki : > Can somebody point me to an easy way to add the source template data back > to the file? ​Look for the "Template Changer" extension; it should do what you want. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreof

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc file size suddenly by 400x

2014-04-17 12:29 GMT+02:00 Thomas Blasejewicz : > I do have a not so big Calc file for my personal "accounting" (keeping > track of my work) > The one from last year was about 160 kb. This year's contains naturally > less data. > And that suddenly jumped to 27 MB and file constantly crashes. > > C

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO for Chrome OS - i.e. Samsung Chrome Book

2014-04-17 14:43 GMT+02:00 Kracked_P_P---webmaster < webmas...@krackedpress.com>: > So I ask if there is any movement towards making a Chrome OS port. > > Actually this Samsung Chrome uses a microSD card for "some" storage. I > cannot tell much about it, since I do not have access to the manual.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc file size suddenly by 400x

2014-04-17 15:26 GMT+02:00 Thomas Blasejewicz : > I am afraid, I do not understand. > Renaming the file to "current name.zip" does not change anything. > Creating a Zip Folder/file generates only ONE folder, containing ONE file > = the calc file. Size as stated. > I cannot see any XML file anywher

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO for Chrome OS - i.e. Samsung Chrome Book

2014-04-17 16:40 GMT+02:00 Don Myers : > The other way is to use Crouton, where you are actually running Ubuntu > through the Chrome OS ​Ah, thanks for that. The name slipped my mind, and I might need this soon too, for roughly the same reason :) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@

Re: [libreoffice-users] Heartbleed

2014-04-17 21:52 GMT+02:00 Tanstaafl : > This is an OpenSSL bug, what does this have to do with Libreoffice? ​As far as I can tell, it's because LibreOffice was linked with a "vulnerable" version of openssl. It's never bad to be on the side of precautions by using the latest versions (especiall

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO for Chrome OS - i.e. Samsung Chrome Book

2014-04-18 11:39 GMT+02:00 Urmas : > "Cley Faye": > >> First alternative (easier): it is possible to install Ubuntu (or other >> linux OS) on a chromebook. >> > > So you propose to the person to turn her expensive device into brick by > voiding its war

Re: [libreoffice-users] Heartbleed

2014-04-18 11:59 GMT+02:00 Tanstaafl : > You are wrong, so need to do a LOT more reading. > > But again... in what way does Libreoffice utilize TCP/UDP connectivity? > What am I missing? Does it have a hidden built-in SSL client? > ​Ahem. Some *hidden* features, like, retrieving data from URL may

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO for Chrome OS - i.e. Samsung Chrome Book

2014-04-18 18:28 GMT+02:00 Kracked_P_P---webmaster < webmas...@krackedpress.com>: > Android's market share is increasing while Windows is going down. Chrome > OS is increasing as well, but its market share is not as strong as Android > [so far]. IT would be nice to get into that market share for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't download from TDF

2014-04-19 4:19 GMT+02:00 MR ZenWiz : > Fixed, sort of - I went to the archive and could get it from there. > > But, really, shouldn't the download page just work? > ​If works for me (at least for the windows version). Maybe you hit a temporary downtime? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsub

Re: [libreoffice-users] Documentation

n.org/images/ > 3/35/WG40-WriterGuideLO.pdf > ​I suspect a corrupted download, as the file is fine here. ​Check that the file you downloaded is ~12MB (​12 229 962 bytes). You can even go further and check the CRC (672C5CCC), but the size is usually enough to detect an accidental download fluke. -- C

Re: [libreoffice-users] Remove Properties and Personal Information

2014-04-28 4:40 GMT+02:00 Joe B : > I realize this is much more a Windows 7 problem than a LibreOffice problem, > but so was my last question :) > ​It's not a "more W7 than LO" problem, it's a "W7 only" problem...​ It would seem to me that if I have Full Control permission, then the > Special Pe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Remove Properties and Personal Information

2014-04-28 16:19 GMT+02:00 Joe B : > Of course, the F permission is "Full Access" which I already have. I am > just showing what I have already tried. > > How might I modify this statement to include "special permissions"? > ​Sorry, I can't help you further with the windows command line tools, a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw & PDF Files

2014-05-08 16:02 GMT+02:00 Brian A. Colucci : > We are running Libre Office 4.2 under Linux Mint 14. Draw states that it > is capable of opening PDF files. This functionality is a bit sketchy. > Either the document will not display at all in draw, or it displays with > all of the fonts, and pag

Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice users list

2014-05-09 1:59 GMT+02:00 : > Did this site die or is my mail program in need of > replacement/resurrection? I have not received any messages since 4-24-14. > ​I don't know about your mail program, but the list is very lively. Last message is from less than an hour ago.​ -- To unsubscribe e-m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw problems

2014-05-09 23:45 GMT+02:00 Girvin Herr : > I am using Linux LO 3.6.7.2. I see that Draw still has problems rendering > drawings correctly as an embedded object. > ​[...]​ > > Does anyone have a better solution? > ​The first thing to try is to use a more up to date version.​ Current version is 4.

Re: [libreoffice-users] ss not expanding excel csv sheet to multiple columns

2014-05-13 20:32 GMT+02:00 John R. Sowden : > I have a vendor who allows me to download a spreadsheet of my monthly > invoice. If she downloads it to herself, in the CSV format, she gets 1 > field per column in Excel. If I download the sheet in the CSV format, I > get all of the fields in 1 colu

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Draw] Confused about how to render rotated text

2014-05-14 17:55 GMT+02:00 KARR, DAVID : > I can't figure out how to render a short piece of rotated text. The > instructions I saw referred to a "text" icon. In the Draw app the only one > that comes close is the "Label Field" in the "Form Controls" toolbar. The > later instructions for selecting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Option to output the .ods underlying XML files auto formatted?

2014-05-17 23:45 GMT+02:00 Jiergir Ogoerg : > Unfortunately all the XML files (which make up the .ods files) aren't > formatted by LibreOffice so I have to waste > a lot of time formatting them by hand to be able to analyze the contents. > > Is there any option in LibreOffice to make it generate _

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

2014-05-19 1:19 GMT+02:00 Wade Smart : > 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 installed. >

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 4.2 Proposal.

2014-05-21 15:06 GMT+02:00 Gilbert Wuytack : > LibreOffice 4.2 offers a new Start screen, and shows a preview of the last > documents. > > Indeed, that is correct but I do not think it's good that everyone can > open password protected documents without entering the password from this > preview! >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Full justification

2014-05-24 22:25 GMT+02:00 william drescher : > I forgot to mention: if you have already typed the text you want > justified, you have to highlight it when clicking on the justify button. ​Technically, it should work by just having the cursor in the paragraph, as the justification is a paragraph

Re: [libreoffice-users] [PDF] Export all pages as PNG in one go?

2014-05-27 12:53 GMT+02:00 Gilles : > When opening the file in LibreOffice Draw, I can select each page and hit > File > Export to get a PNG file, but it appears that it's not possible to > select all the pages with CTRL, hit Export, and get the pages as > independant > files as eg. Page1.png, Pag

Re: [libreoffice-users] Page Break and Page Break with new Style

ty to add/change the page style and numbering. It is particularly useful to know when working with master document, when you need to track a rogue page break that appear at the beginning of sub-documents. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2014-06-11 10:03 GMT+02:00 Brian Barker : > At 09:24

Re: [libreoffice-users] Page Break and Page Break with new Style

2014-06-11 18:01 GMT+02:00 Brian Barker : > At 15:35 11/06/2014 +0200, Cley Faye wrote: > >> In addition to the other response, it is good to know that page breaks >> inserted manually are defined in the Paragraph style immediately following >> the break. >&g

Re: [libreoffice-users] SAve powerpoint presentation as executable

re (including mobile browsers). Out of these four options, I'll suggest the first two, as coming across a computer that doesn't have a PDF reader is uncommon nowadays. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2014-06-17 20:44 GMT+02:00 Pikov Andropov : > Can LO produce an executable file f

Re: [libreoffice-users] Save Powerpoint presentation as executable

2014-06-18 2:37 GMT+02:00 Brian Barker : > Unfortunately, not directly. And there is (as far as I know) no simple >> "viewer" that could be used for this purpose, ... >> > > On the contrary, if the target platform is Windows (but not other > operating systems), it can use the freeware Powerpoint V

Re: [libreoffice-users] Loading each document about 3 minutes

2014-06-20 11:53 GMT+02:00 Cigydd : > Note: I post here because I am not absolutely sure that this is a problem > on > the antivirus side. > ​An easy way to check this is to temporarily disable your antivirus live protection and try to open the files. As long as you don't wander on shoddy website

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Loading each document about 3 minutes

2014-06-20 13:46 GMT+02:00 Cigydd : > So is there any solution to my problem except having the two computers > which share that two disconnected printers always turned on or switching > them on each time I need to work with LibreOffice on the third computer > (which is a notebook)? > I know, this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Loading each document about 3 minutes

2014-06-20 22:44 GMT+02:00 Cigydd : > So does somebody have an idea what's causing the remaining delay by > loading the ODS spreadsheets? > One of the files contains about 30 sheets, each of them 1-3 pages long. > But it can't be the cause because the other file contains only 1 sheet > with 4 rows

Re: [libreoffice-users] Sponsoring improvements and bug fixes

2014-07-01 16:46 GMT+02:00 Andrew Beverley : > This is the real issue. I don't doubt it's good value, but I probably > should have explained my situation: at the moment I'm a single > individual trying to move small companies onto Libreoffice. Money for > the fixes will come straight from my own p

Re: [libreoffice-users] Disappearing manual page break in master document

right-click in the very first line of this document, select "Paragraph" and add a page break by hand there, selecting the page style and setting the numbering to start at one. This should stick when merged with the master document. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2014-07-03 22:40 GMT

Re: [libreoffice-users] different font size in different files

2014-07-10 8:33 GMT+02:00 John R. Sowden : > I have tried to standardize on freesans 10 point for most ss uses. I just > came on a file with very small type size, yet when I selected the cell and > the format -> font, I got freesans 10 point. Not wanting to diagnose > myself as blind and/or craz

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

2014-07-12 20:10 GMT+02:00 Kracked_P_P---webmaster < webmas...@krackedpress.com>: > The files are .sig > which might be something like Printshop or other software that was out > there in October 2005 when the files were made. There is a cover.sig, p1 - > p13.sig, and a toc.sig file names. > > Rig

Re: [libreoffice-users] which version has the best legacy importing?

o flat image formats... -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2014-07-12 20:55 GMT+02:00 Robert Funnell : > A quick Google search indicates that your suggestion of PrintShop may be > close to the mark. It seems that the files are probably image files and not > word-processing files. Apparent

Re: [libreoffice-users] Is version 4.1.6.2 insecure?

rogramming language, and as such can do nasty things by themselves, or expose other vulnerabilities (that's why their use is usually discouraged). If you only open documents from "safe, known and reliable sources" the impact should be minimal, but it's better to be on the side safe of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: different font size in different files

2014-07-12 21:56 GMT+02:00 Robert Peirce : > No idea, but I used to copy and paste from a terminal window (Mac) to a > calc sheet with no problem, until the latest release. Now, what I paste > gets blown up to a much larger size. I have to enter the numbers by hand > and then they are okay. I h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: File corruption on OSX and LO 4252

2014-07-16 9:42 GMT+02:00 Alexander Thurgood : > I was also always sceptical of reading/writing directly from/to external > storage, but this issue had never occurred in any of the preceding 3.x > or 4.1 versions of LO on OSX (or in any other version of > StarOffice/OOo/LO/AOO/NeoOffice that I hav

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-25 9:19 GMT+02:00 Charles-H. Schulz < charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org>: > Now you will tell me that it is easier to type LO than it is with > LibreOffice. Perhaps. But everyone here writes MS Office... ​I've seen MSO used in long messages... Seeing that these messages are on the *L

Re: [libreoffice-users] shortcut keys for LibreOffice under Linux

h one, and dislike the other, you can try KDE, which have no issues interfering with common keyboard shortcuts, and is also extensively configurable in case you find an obscure combination that conflict with libreoffice. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net -- To unsubscribe e-m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

2014-08-27 13:15 GMT+02:00 Maurice : > The simplest way would presumably be to write an app that would create > a temporary composite document from a list, and do the Find through > that. > ​I don't know if that's what you meant, but it might be possible to achieve this through a macro inside Lib

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

2014-08-28 16:01 GMT+02:00 Tom Davies : > I thought > that was all the Master Documents did but i guess there is a lot more to > it! > > ​One of the "great" feature of master documents is overriding styles from sub documents. With that you can have for example a whole book written with a set of fi

Re: [libreoffice-users] How do I insert a thin space in Libre in Windows?

2014-09-11 17:57 GMT+02:00 Brian Barker : > At 11:03 11/09/2014 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > >> On 11 September 2014 08:07, Johan de Smidt wrote: >> >>> What is the keyboard shortcut for inserting a thin space in Windows? >>> >> >> If you go to Tools - Customise then you can reconfigure one of the >

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to make this equation?

2014-09-17 12:26 GMT+02:00 rcc : > Hi, > > How to make the equation as the attached image? > > > Thank you. > ​With something like this: v_{0}=left none {d} over {dt} g left (t,c_{1},c_{2} right ) mline right none_{t=t_{0}} ​For the r

Re: [libreoffice-users] Saving as docx in Writer

2014-09-19 16:08 GMT+02:00 Laurence Wyche : > Hello Chaps > Sometimes we are forced to save our Writer documents as if they were Word > docs. > Up to now this has worked well, but now it produces a zip file. > What is going on? > A docx file IS a zip file. Are you saying that LibreOffice actually

Re: [libreoffice-users] Making horizontal lines in Writer

your document will not have to modify it, only to view/print it. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2014-09-24 0:27 GMT+02:00 "J. Van Brimmer" : > I'm using 4.3.1.2 on Xubuntu Linux. > > I am creating some lesson handouts for a class I'm going to be teaching. I >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ctrl+F4 Close document

might be to avoid a clash with a system shortcut. On some desktop environment, Ctrl+F4 lead to the fourth desktop. You can either look around on your system how this keyboard shortcut is handled, or use another. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2014-09-26 16:24 GMT+02:00 Thomas Blasejewicz :

Re: [libreoffice-users] profiles

x27;s not, each file/directory can be moved around without trouble. The only thing that is quite hard to extract (and usually, the cause of issue) is the registryModifications.xcu file, which contain almost all custom configuration. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2014-10-14 1:18 GMT+02:00 Tim

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice forks

ur.com/O6vSljU.jpg>. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2014-10-15 1:50 GMT+02:00 anne-ology : >would you like a spoon & knife with that ;-) > >If 'fork' has now become a computer term - > [and I just 'searched' it to see] - >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem importing xls files

2014-10-15 12:27 GMT+02:00 Urmas : > "Harvey Nimmo": > > I think you will find that a .slk file is a symbolic link file >> (equivalent to the linux .lnk) so it won't open directly in Calc. >> > > LOL wut? SYmbolic LinK is one of the oldest text data interchange formats. > ​Also the first time I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Is there a way for a Basic macro to detect what application is running it?

unction to distinguish between version of the Basic API (not only between AOO and LO). -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2014-10-19 21:06 GMT+02:00 Johnny Rosenberg : > Here's my problem: > > I have both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice installed and I use them > both. I have quite

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Calc question...

2014-10-26 19:48 GMT+01:00 Andrew Sullivan : > I have a simple spreadsheet in Calc - just a few columns fo data and a > chart at the top of the page. The data columns are quite long (hundreds of > lines eventually) and I would like to fix the position of the chart at the > top of the page and scr

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