Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Links in a writer document

2012-11-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/09/2012 09:41 AM, paulwhitehurst wrote: Tom: Thanks. That's what I tried. My idea for the form was to allow the user to fill in data in a Writer table cell. Then, inside the spreadsheet I wanted to insert a DDE link to the cell in a Writer table. The spreadsheet would do the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles pane in Writer

2012-11-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/09/2012 03:25 PM, VA wrote: I'm a huge proponent of paragraph styles, and I use them constantly in Writer. One frustration I have is that when I call up the Styles pane (F11), it typically lists the styles by Automatic by default. I then always change it to list the styles in a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Auto changes on a new spreadsheet set for next year

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/08/2012 06:45 AM, Paul Stear wrote: I have the same spreadsheet set I use each year. The new spreadsheet for 2013 will need to reference fields in the 2012 spreadsheet. ='file:///home/fred/Generation Readings-2012.ods'#$Jan.A68 The 2012 spreadsheet is referenced to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer Extension / Change template of an existing document

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/08/2012 07:49 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/template-changer I previously have used this Template Changer extension. Only it now [not being an oxt] will not install into my current version of LibreOffice. Anybody have a working version

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer Extension / Change template of an existing document

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/08/2012 08:47 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 08:35 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote: On 11/08/2012 07:49 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/template-changer I previously have used this Template Changer extension. Only it now

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO to .doc with background image?

2012-11-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/07/2012 10:00 AM, Bjørn K Nilssen wrote: I made a 'template' in LO for an A3 leaflet with a background image (page style) on the first page. No margins, but with boxes with text, table and images on top of it. Everything works fine in LO, and also if exported as PDF. But when saved as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB [SOLVED]

2012-11-06 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/06/2012 02:41 AM, Ian Whitfield wrote: Thanks Guys!! (Girvin, Henirich, Dan, Mas and maybe others!!) You have all added some pieces to the Jigsaw and I'm pleased to say.. *I now have Base working with a MySQL Database (at last!!)* As Girvin would say My Bad!! I had been looking

Re: [libreoffice-users] Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB [SOLVED]

2012-11-06 Thread Dan Lewis
Base as a stand alone refers to embedded databases (the database data is contained in the database file. This type of database can lose data. However, this does not mean that you have to use MySQL, Presgresql, or Oracle, ... Nor do you have to install a JDBC or ODBC driver for Base to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB [SOLVED]

2012-11-06 Thread Dan Lewis
) On 6.11.2012 15:12, Dan Lewis wrote: Base as a stand alone refers to embedded databases (the database data is contained in the database file. This type of database can lose data. However, this does not mean that you have to use MySQL, Presgresql, or Oracle, ... Nor do you have to install a JDBC

Re: [libreoffice-users] Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB

2012-11-01 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/01/2012 08:42 AM, Ian Whitfield wrote: Thanks Heinz Well I even went off this morning looking at 'other' solutions for this and it seems to be - Use Base or go and learn PHP or Ruby or something like that!! So I got into Base again and found an interesting fact - Base had _NOT_

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Searchable PDFs from Graphite fonts

2012-10-31 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/30/2012 11:08 PM, Jonathan Schultz wrote: I can select the text in the PDF, copy and paste, but get an 'h' added before most 'i'. I can search, but not if the word is one with the extra h before i Steve That's exactly what I mean. It effectively means no searching. I tried both Linux

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.7

2012-10-29 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/29/2012 03:38 PM, Guy Voets wrote: 2012/10/18 Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org Berlin, October 18, 2012 - The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.7, the seventh and possibly last version of the free office suite's 3.5 family, which solves additional bugs and

Re: [libreoffice-users] image anchoring

2012-10-21 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/21/2012 06:54 AM, Alexandre FRIEDMANN wrote: Hello, for a long time, i have been looking for a way to set image anchoring to 'as text' as the default preset, instead of 'to paragraph'. Since i have'nt found any clue to do so (maybe i did not search enough), i am finally writing this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suitability of Lo in Small organisations

2012-10-21 Thread Dan Lewis
Personal opinion: LibO version 3.5.7 for Base. What do you know about how Base works? What is your background in the topic of relational databases? Each database program has its own method of creating and working with its databases. What are you going to use as a resource for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base - need to re-point a form

2012-10-20 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/20/2012 09:27 AM, John Clegg wrote: OK, all fixed at last - by a clunky method, but hey - it worked! I had the data in a CSV so I loaded that into an ODS sheet, then pasted from there into a new table via Base, creating a new primary index in the process. That worked! On 19 October 2012

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font

2012-10-19 Thread Dan Lewis
If you have plain text, use Control+A to highlight the entire text. Then clicking the Default Paragraph style will change to your desired font. The key to what is happening is the type of style being applied: paragraph. If you place the cursor in a single line paragraph, clicking

Re: [libreoffice-users] Inserting a code for today's date

2012-10-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/19/2012 10:26 AM, bill wrote: Is there any way I can insert code so that when I open a template the date is the date that the document is opened rather than the date it was created ? Have you saved your template using File - Templates - Save? This will save it in the LO User

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font

2012-10-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/19/2012 11:23 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 12:08 19/10/2012 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote: From: Charles Meyer Sent: Friday, 19 October 2012, 15:44 I'm new to Libre Office but I read how you can create your own default font style and size so a blank document will open to that default style

Re: [libreoffice-users] Insert Date gives no date

2012-10-18 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/18/2012 08:00 AM, . wrote: Sorry for the messed up text. Here's what it should look like; Writer won't insert the current date.or any date for that matter. Here's how I do it- InsertFields-Date All that gets inserted is Date (fixed) However! When the document is being

Re: [libreoffice-users] Indexing for Search not working?

2012-10-18 Thread Dan Lewis
As far as Base is concerned, I have not been having any problems with 3.4.6, 3.5.6, nor 3.6.2. (I just installed 3.6.3.2 which is a release candidate. For my personal databases I use the most, I use MySQL as the backend with any of these LO Base versions as the front end. I work with Base

Re: [libreoffice-users] Indexing for Search not working?

2012-10-18 Thread Dan Lewis
:) *From:* Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com *To:* users@global.libreoffice.org *Sent:* Thursday, 18 October 2012, 15:04 *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Indexing for Search not working? As far as Base is concerned, I have not been having any problems with 3.4.6

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Writer Find Replace format broken

2012-10-18 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/18/2012 01:22 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: I've been using LibreOffice on Ubuntu 10.04 for many months. I transcribe recorded interviews. The format includes the identification of the speaker at the left margin followed by what they said. To speed up the typing I use the

Re: [libreoffice-users] set custom image as bullet list template

2012-10-17 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/17/2012 02:04 PM, Daniel A. Rodriguez wrote: hi, I'm trying to set a custom image as bullet list impress template with no success so far, any hint? Modify the Master slide using Styles: 1. Open a slide presentation whose bullets you want change. 2. View - Master - Slide Master. 3.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Integer part of a number

2012-10-14 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/14/2012 05:20 AM, Gilles SICHE wrote: Hello, could anyone tell me which formula I should use for the integer part of a cell to be shown in another cell, and for the value of this cell to be changed, since, for example, 5,77 would become equal to 5? When finding out who won in an

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ambiguous Calc cell status show

2012-10-14 Thread Dan Lewis
Ubuntu has a program called Simple Scan. Very likely your Linux version will have a similar OCR. --Dan On 10/14/2012 07:00 AM, Viral Orpe wrote: Hi :) Ideally, I would like to get rid of the dependency and do all the work, the web-site's and mine, from raw data to have timely results

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Auto and Manual Spell do not work . .

2012-10-12 Thread Dan Lewis
I have been reading this thread for some time, but I'm having a hard time understanding what you write. So I have some questions for you. Open Writer so you have an Untitled document in it. Click Format and then click Character from its menu. In the middle of the window that opens,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Color cursor (active cell) on calc

2012-10-11 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/11/2012 10:59 AM, Àngel mompó wrote: Thanks Tom I can configure the color changing the field Font color and it changes the color of everything writed with the default color, not only the cursor. It afects also to Writter, for example. Àngel -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fw: Help request on CALC charts' features

2012-10-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/09/2012 02:47 PM, MiguelAngel wrote: El 09/10/12 19:52, Viral Orpe escribió: Hi :) Thanks for your time and replies. I could stop fighting calc to show me the chart as a single worksheet! I was charting the stock market data (available in daily doses to be bunched neatly in weekly,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Title bar changes during starting up LibreOffice

2012-10-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/07/2012 09:22 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: When I start up LibreOffice, the title bar first displays, for example, LibreOffice 3.5 Calc. When finished doing whatever it does, the title bar changes to LibreOffice 3.3 Calc. Ubuntu 12.04 LibreOffice 3.5.6.2 (installed using the debs available

Re: [libreoffice-users] using \t in regular expression replace

2012-10-06 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/06/2012 05:09 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi all, I was trying to use \t to replace e.g a paragraph ending with a tab. So find $ replace with \t That does not work. Nor in combination with ^ or \n (one has to try something ;-) ) I can replace e.a. an character with a tab though. This is the

Re: [libreoffice-users] documentation for LO base

2012-10-04 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/04/2012 06:29 AM, Mark Stanton wrote: As well as existing guides by Andrew Pitonyak and others. Mark Could we have some links for the locations for these please. I personally would like to have a list of these resources for personal references. Perhaps others would also. --Dan

Re: [libreoffice-users] Extracting info from calc cell

2012-10-04 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/04/2012 02:23 PM, Daniel A. Rodriguez wrote: Have a huge users list with the form 'lastname', 'middle-name' 'first-name'. I need to extract initials and I can't figure out how to do that. Following the example, expected result should be mflastname Any clue?

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Writer] Data to Fields is not working

2012-10-04 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/04/2012 03:55 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: Dan, Thanks for your reply. On 04/10/2012 at 01:50, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: You need to use both Data to Text and Data to Fields buttons for the later to work. 1. Open new Writer document 2. Press F4 (or View ? Data

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Writer] Data to Fields is not working

2012-10-03 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/03/2012 04:55 PM, Miros?aw Zalewski wrote: Hi I can not make Date to Fields button working. Steps that I try: 1. Open new Writer document 2. Press F4 (or View ? Data Sources) 3. Select bibliography table biblio 4. Press left-most cell of any row to select entire row (without this step

Re: [libreoffice-users] documentation for LO base

2012-10-03 Thread Dan Lewis
On 10/03/2012 08:41 PM, Ken Brucker wrote: Is there any documentation for LibreOffice Base? There is the beginning of the Base Guide available at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications. Three chapters are presently available: Chapter 8 of the Getting Started Guide

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO cannot correctly import quoted text

2012-10-01 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/30/2012 10:02 AM, prino wrote: I've got some data, that, very simplified looks like 1,2,3,4,Cell E1 2,2,3,4,Cell E2 3,2,3,4,Cell E3 4,2,3,4,Cell E4 5,2,3,4,Cell E5 i.e. it contains both text and quoted text. When I import this (LO 3.6.1, W7-64, UK English) using Codepage: System

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-01 Thread Dan Lewis
Personally, this entire thread is a waste of time. Who cares who is a moron as far as IT is concerned? Why complain about anything unless you are going to do something about it? There is not a single person that has contributed to this thread that is too old to contribute to making LO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mailmerge from query broken in 3.4.6?

2012-09-28 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/28/2012 08:43 AM, Mark Stanton wrote: Ok, a little more information, because I've now fixed the problem and have a bit more idea of the scope of the mess, which is huge, I'd say. This mailmerge is linked to a query in a MySQL database. My query couldn't use the query wizard (Andreas

Re: [libreoffice-users] need help applying standard layouts to master pages.

2012-09-28 Thread Dan Lewis
18:07, Dan Lewis wrote: On 09/27/2012 06:27 AM, Alessandro Ghidotti Piovan wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to create a template which has 4 slide master: 1) a title master 2) a summary master 3) a two-columns image and text master 4) a standard text master. To design the template, I tried

Re: [libreoffice-users] need help applying standard layouts to master pages.

2012-09-27 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/27/2012 06:27 AM, Alessandro Ghidotti Piovan wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to create a template which has 4 slide master: 1) a title master 2) a summary master 3) a two-columns image and text master 4) a standard text master. To design the template, I tried to add 4 slide masters each

Re: [libreoffice-users] need help applying standard layouts to master pages.

2012-09-27 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/27/2012 06:27 AM, Alessandro Ghidotti Piovan wrote: Hello all, I'm trying to create a template which has 4 slide master: 1) a title master 2) a summary master 3) a two-columns image and text master 4) a standard text master. To design the template, I tried to add 4 slide masters each

[libreoffice-users] Properties of a Memo field in a Base form for OS X

2012-09-27 Thread Dan Lewis
When using a Memo field in a Base form, one can have multi-line text in it. I know how to specify this . The problem is with another property of the Memo field: what each line ends with for OS X. Unix uses a Line Feed to end a line, and Windows uses Carriage Return and Line Feed in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to arrange figures on page (table?)

2012-09-26 Thread Dan Lewis
, Sep 25, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/25/2012 10:23 AM, Agustin Lobo wrote: I apologize again. This is my original question: I normally use tables to arrange figures within a page (i.e., a 2col x 1 row for 2 figures) The problem is that normally figures get

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to arrange figures on page (table?)

2012-09-25 Thread Dan Lewis
Answer below: On 09/25/2012 10:23 AM, Agustin Lobo wrote: I apologize again. This is my original question: I normally use tables to arrange figures within a page (i.e., a 2col x 1 row for 2 figures) The problem is that normally figures get reshaped (and distorted) to fit the cell, while what I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to arrange figures on page (table?)

2012-09-25 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/25/2012 10:23 AM, Agustin Lobo wrote: I apologize again. This is my original question: I normally use tables to arrange figures within a page (i.e., a 2col x 1 row for 2 figures) The problem is that normally figures get reshaped (and distorted) to fit the cell, while what I would like is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-09-20 Thread Dan Lewis
The reality of documentation is that very few people are willing to help produce it. This is true of Base more so than the other components of LO. All of it is done by volunteers. If people want better documentation, they need to do something about it. That means personally testing various

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-09-20 Thread Dan Lewis
) for the database from where to open forms, reports, etc That as a beginning. If or when Base works without problems and without bothering that list, I am lazy enough to start using the rest of the LibO-suite. Best regards Pertti Rönnberg On 20.9.2012 14:37, Dan Lewis wrote: The reality

Re: [libreoffice-users] Socket Creation Error in LibO 3.6.2.1 RC 1

2012-09-18 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/18/2012 02:48 PM, Steven Shelton wrote: Installed the latest RC of LibO and tried to connect to a HSQL database I use with the Java DBC. This works fine in LibO 3.4 and 3.5, but with the RC I get a Socket creation error. I'm not sure if this is a bug or something I may have done

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't send document as e-mail attachment to Opera Mail

2012-09-18 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/18/2012 07:47 PM, wpost wrote: On Sat, September 15, 2012 10:13 pm, Anthony Easthope [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] wrote: As an aside what is the reason your using the M2 Client? from my own experience it has loads of issues and is not as half as good as thunderbird or evolution

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with the loading

2012-09-17 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/17/2012 11:44 AM, Inger Wejheden wrote: Hi, I am a new user of Impress and I have prpblems with the loading of the program. I have made three slides shows and have the same problems with them all. I have no ideat att all what the problem depend on. I should be glad for some help. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't send document as e-mail attachment to Opera Mail

2012-09-16 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/16/2012 07:15 AM, M Henri Day wrote: 2012/9/16 Anthony Easthope antiso...@myopera.com Thats a tricky one. I don't exactly have a solution to the opera problem but it might be best to associate the email client (Thunderbird maybe?) as the default. From the best of my knowledge the opera

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot enter data in Base

2012-09-16 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/16/2012 05:05 PM, Kevin O'Brien wrote: I have LO 3.5.4.2 installed on a Kubuntu 12.04 box with Sun Java JRE installed. I created a simple database to keep addresses, set up the fields I want, but now I cannot enter any data at all. Whether as a table of a form, it is all on large blank

Re: [libreoffice-users] Clipart gallery organization in Impress?

2012-09-15 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/15/2012 05:06 AM, Magnus Larsson wrote: Hi! I'm using Impress for a lot of presentations in various contexts (teaching, consultancy etc), but have recently found the organization of the clipart gallery difficult to use. Earlier, it was organized in themes, for instance, Business,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: not create a dot file in same folder as document when opening it for viewing

2012-09-13 Thread Dan Lewis
What does it prevent you from doing? Are you trying to open this file more than once? You see, I'm confused why you need to override this function of LO. Since the dot files are hidden anyway, I don't see what difference the existence of these files make. The answer to my questions might

Re: [libreoffice-users] Automatically fill user informations from Sun LDAP

2012-09-12 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/12/2012 01:52 AM, Nicolas ABEL wrote: I would need a way to fill user informations from a Sun LDAP on a few hundred computers (Libreoffice 3.5.6.2 already installed). The best would be to update informations from the LDAP at each restart or on demand. Any clue to help us do that ? Thanks

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibrreOffice 3.5.6

2012-09-10 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/10/2012 09:19 AM, Chris Crofton-Sleigh wrote: Hi I have just installed the latest version of LibreOffice to try it with a view to uninstalling MS Office later on if I find that LibreOffice is to my liking. However, I have come up against two hurdles: snip because another person answered

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Date issue

2012-09-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/09/2012 02:52 PM, naomi.br...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've just had the same problem, I want to enter a year in the format , which I can't using the date/time field type. Having read this post I tried to choose an integer and have it set the length to 4, but it won't let me change the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Was Re: Date will not format or sort when imported into calc (ods) - Databases vs Spreadsheets

2012-09-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/09/2012 06:51 PM, JAMES MAJESKI wrote: In a spreadsheet I get all the information I require and it is easy to get additional information if needed. I can add, modify, and delete headers both horizontally and vertically. I can add, modify, or delete cells, rows, or columns at will. As long

Re: [libreoffice-users] Formatting fonts in Impress

2012-09-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On 09/08/2012 04:04 PM, Inger Wejheden wrote: Hello, I should be grateful for some fast help concerning formatting fonts in Impress. How do I set default for for example Times New Roman for the whole slide show? Now I have to change for every new line and cannot figure out how to set

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc: Average value, multiple conditions

2012-09-06 Thread Dan Lewis
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I have a spreadsheet with quite a lot of values and text. Column C: Name. Column D: Date. Column H: Values (integers, currently in the range of 176 to 605). R1: A specific name that matches many of the rows of column C. P2: Start date. Q2: End date. I tried this:

Re: [libreoffice-users] file name suggestion

2012-09-05 Thread Dan Lewis
Paolo Debortoli wrote: in a message on facebook, somebody suggested that writer when first saving a document should copy a feature of m$ word: compose automatically the document name using the first vtwo words of the document itself, instead of naming it something like 'document without

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Oracle Java 1.7.0_04 is not compatible with the Writer of LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 on the Windows platform

2012-06-07 Thread Dan Lewis
Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It seems a shame to hide all that hard-work. If only thee was some way of making notes on-line that people could access and possibly build on if they did similar experiments on different systems. Regards from Tom :) snip Let me see ... storage of information

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress: Default color for text is white

2012-06-04 Thread Dan Lewis
Bottom post Agustin Lobo wrote: Regina, many thanks for your help. Just found that this problem happens only if a recycle a given ppt, not if I start a new presentation from scratch. Nevertheless, as this recycling is actually important, I provide a short example here:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Document 'corrupt' for LibreOffice, opens fine with other OOo-based software

2012-06-04 Thread Dan Lewis
Eric Brunel wrote: Hello all, We are trying to generate a document in Open Document Format and we're having a problem with the latest Mac version of LibreOffice (3.5.4.2): it says the document is corrupt when other OOo-based software open it correctly (namely IBM / Lotus Symphony 3.0.0 FP2

Re: [libreoffice-users] Document 'corrupt' for LibreOffice, opens fine with other OOo-based software

2012-06-04 Thread Dan Lewis
Eric Brunel wrote: On 4 juin 12, at 14:58, Dan Lewis wrote: I did some testing on the document you created. First I downloaded the file, created a copy, and renamed the copy from .odt to .zip (doctext.zip). Then I opened the downloaded file with LO allowing it to repair the file. Then I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer makes a mess of saved documents

2012-05-31 Thread Dan Lewis
jjs wrote: Hi, i don't know why but when you make a document, starting with just a blanc layout. You put in text and in between some pictures. Then it looks ok. When you save it in docx or odt format and then re-open it, it is a totall mess. aaaHrrggg! it totally does not remember were you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Type fonts

2012-05-26 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 22:25 +0200, J.A. de Vries wrote: Hi Guy, I use lots of OpenType Fonts (.otf files)) in LibreOffice on my Debian system. Never had any trouble with them at all. I figure you shouldn't have a problem under Windows either, but I can't verify that for you as I don't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Extremely Slow Base Report Builder

2012-05-25 Thread Dan Lewis
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 15:47 -0700, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I have just done a bit of digging around. Looking back through Andreas' answers http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodesuser=254826i=80 I found this but i'm not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [3.5.3/XP/Write] Items with arrows?

2012-05-23 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 01:01 +0200, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Gilles, Gilles schrieb: Thanks for the tip. However, after selecting the arrow and hitting CTRL+C and CTRL+V, Write doesn't copy/paste so I'm forced to start from scratch with each new arrow. How come? Have you unselect

Re: [libreoffice-users] Hyperlink Toolbar

2012-05-11 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 14:11 +0200, gualter wrote: Hi all, This is the first post of a normal user of LO from the beginning and without specials skills. I know hyperlink toolbar was considered a bug, but it is useful. I'm working with LO 3.3.4, no upgrade, to no lost this tool. I don't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Hyperlink Toolbar

2012-05-11 Thread Dan Lewis
mentioned as with the hyperlink toolbar. --Dan El 11/05/2012 18:36, Dan Lewis escribió: On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 14:11 +0200, gualter wrote: Hi all, This is the first post of a normal user of LO from the beginning and without specials skills. I know hyperlink toolbar was considered a bug

Re: [libreoffice-users] AutoText for a document

2012-05-11 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 21:10 -0300, Carlos Pita wrote: Hi all, is it possible to store an autotext entry within a document (as it is possible for a macro) instead of storing it in the local filesystem? Maybe by means of associating it to a macro? Seems like a useful feature for autotext

Re: [libreoffice-users] Hyperlink Toolbar

2012-05-10 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 14:11 +0200, gualter wrote: Hi all, This is the first post of a normal user of LO from the beginning and without specials skills. I know hyperlink toolbar was considered a bug, but it is useful. I'm working with LO 3.3.4, no upgrade, to no lost this tool. I don't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph styles for list styles

2012-05-10 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 23:45 -0300, Carlos Pita wrote: Hi all, I find this description in the documentation very misleading: Each of the list styles predefined in Writer has four associated paragraph styles. For example, the Numbering 1 list style is associated with four paragraph

Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph styles for list styles

2012-05-10 Thread Dan Lewis
of WG. --Dan On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 23:45 -0300, Carlos Pita wrote: Hi all, I find this description in the documentation very misleading: Each of the list styles predefined in Writer has four associated

Re: [libreoffice-users] My story

2012-05-09 Thread Dan Lewis
What could be the reason for this? One person can use the native MySQL connector to connect in Windows but can not in Linux. Another person use it to connect Linux but can not in Linux. Likely, the first person has the version that should be used in a Windows OS, and the second person has the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Freezing a cell in Calc permanently

2012-05-09 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 20:47 -0400, The Wolfkin wrote: When you freeze a row or column in Calc http://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Freezing_Rows_or_Columns_as_Headers is there a way to save that as a permanent state? I've tried freezing and after a few minutes I managed to get it to work but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file

2012-05-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, May 7, 2012 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:20 -0400

Re: [libreoffice-users] math issues

2012-05-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 13:31 -0800, Marc Grober wrote: Was looking at recent changes and came across this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10300067/how-to-load-and-mathml-formula-into-libreoffice, which suggests that there is in LO an Insert Formula option from the Tools menu. I can find no

Re: [libreoffice-users] math issues

2012-05-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 23:50 +0200, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Marc, Marc Grober schrieb: Was looking at recent changes and came across this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10300067/how-to-load-and-mathml-formula-into-libreoffice, which suggests that there is in LO an Insert Formula

Re: [libreoffice-users] math issues

2012-05-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 16:03 -0800, Marc Grober wrote: It is still not clear to me. Where is your MathML source, that you will get into a LO document? MathML source is obtained via mathjax - one need only copy and paste Have you tried this? Insert Object Formula. Then copy and

Re: [libreoffice-users] caption editing

2012-05-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 10:15 +0200, Gergely Buday wrote: Hi there, I made the mistake to have one image as Drawing and another one as Illustration. Now I want to change the Drawing into Illustration. The Caption entry in the Insert menu is only for creating a new caption - how can I get a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Workarounds for multiple problems with the legacy Report Designer-Wizard under LO 3.5

2012-05-07 Thread Dan Lewis
Comments inline: On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 15:28 +0300, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: Fred, I also want to thank you for an adequate discussion - more of that kind on this mailing list is needed! Let us only hope it will lead to something in practice -- but I am afraid not. May I take part from a

Re: [libreoffice-users] caption editing

2012-05-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 20:13 +0200, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 07/05/2012 at 13:49, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: Sorry, but this doesn't work. The new field will read Drawing = Illustration+1 - not Illustration = Illustration+1, as it needs to. This means that the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Email more than once .doc file

2012-05-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 01:31 +0200, Nino wrote: On 07.05.2012 06:04, Marc Paré wrote: A couple of users who are using LibreOffice professionally are wondering if it was possible to email their .odt files through the File-Send-Email as Microsoft Word not only one at a time? There are many

Re: [libreoffice-users] Read error on .ods file

2012-05-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:20 -0400, Jay Lozier wrote: Paul, On 05/07/2012 07:11 PM, Paul Schwartz wrote: I recently installed Libre Office [default on a new Ubuntu 12.04 install]. I have a file that opens fine with Open Office but generates a Read error with Libre Office. Any clues

Re: [libreoffice-users] strange scrollbar behaviour

2012-05-05 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 17:59 +0200, Guy Voets wrote: RESEND Hello, This is not really new, but I didn't take the time till now to report it. When I click somewhere on the scrollbar in a Writer document, the part of the text will jump up or down by about one window. So far so good. When I

Re: [libreoffice-users] ePub?

2012-05-04 Thread Dan Lewis
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 10:47 -0400, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 05/03/2012 07:21 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 18:48 -0400, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: I know this was asked before, but what software was used to created the ePub version on this LO documentation page

Re: [libreoffice-users] Inserting comment causes Impress to close without warning

2012-05-03 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 04:20 -0700, chimak111 wrote: LibreOffice 3.5.2.2 Build ID: 350m1(Build: 202) on Ubuntu 12.04. As soon as one clicks Insert, Comment, Impress closes without any visible error. Instead of using the mouse, even the keyboard combination of control+Alt+C is enough to cause

Re: [libreoffice-users] ePub?

2012-05-03 Thread Dan Lewis
Even if you use this extension, the results you get depends upon the complexity of the original document. A simple text document ought to convert well. My documents contain text, figures in frames, tables, and two different types of lists. I have to use another program, Sigil, designed to

Re: [libreoffice-users] ePub?

2012-05-03 Thread Dan Lewis
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 18:48 -0400, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: I know this was asked before, but what software was used to created the ePub version on this LO documentation page? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications the file:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Legacy Base reports won't open in LibreOffice 3.5

2012-05-02 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 04:17 -0700, David Mitchell wrote: I had exactly same problem after upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04 with LO3.5. Solution suggested to at Sorting control worked perfectly. -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Templates Disappeared

2012-05-02 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 11:16 +1000, Keith Bates wrote: With the new release of Ubuntu last week I received a new release of LO 3.5.2.2 For some reason, my templates are no longer accessible. The files are present in a folder that is referenced in the Tools-Options-Paths - all unchanged

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Wanted: Macro for removing Page Breaks in MailMerge docs

2012-05-01 Thread Dan Lewis
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 00:36 +0200, Nino Novak wrote: Hi Drew, On Tuesday 01 May 2012, 18:22:04 drew jensen wrote: Hi Nino I haven't tried this, but from reading the earlier email - the page break is injected with the use of a style, yes? Can't you just edit the style P4 I think it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress full screen question

2012-04-30 Thread Dan Lewis
On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 17:52 +0200, Didier Spaier wrote: On 30/04/2012 17:21, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote: On Monday 30 Apr 2012 10:20 my mailbox was graced by a message from Didier Spaier who wrote: To open a presentation in full screen in LO, I just hit F5 or choose Slideshow (Diaporama,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress full screen question

2012-04-30 Thread Dan Lewis
On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 14:26 -0400, Don C. Myers wrote: On 04/30/2012 01:03 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 17:52 +0200, Didier Spaier wrote: On 30/04/2012 17:21, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote: On Monday 30 Apr 2012 10:20 my mailbox was graced by a message from Didier Spaier who

Re: [libreoffice-users] Starting a set of styles from scratch in LO Writer?

2012-04-29 Thread Dan Lewis
On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 08:23 +0200, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Le 29/04/2012 04:50, avamk a écrit : Hello, I would love to fully utilise templates in my Writer documents, but am still confused about its organisation. When I open the Styles and Formatting window, it shows all

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Starting a set of styles from scratch in LO Writer?

2012-04-29 Thread Dan Lewis
Please don't draw conclusions of the problem until more is know. The problem occurs with the numbering of graphics. What does this have to do with applying custom styles? It is a function of the Insert caption dialog. --Dan On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 13:43 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Yes,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Crash when hitting F11 or choosing

2012-04-27 Thread Dan Lewis
On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 12:48 +0200, Didier Spaier wrote: Hello everybody, new to this list. I use : LibreOffice 3.5.2.2 Version ID : 350m1(Build:202) The package was compiled for Slackware '32 bit) by Eric Hameleers. When I hit F11 or choose Format=Styles and formatting in the menu, LO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Crash when hitting F11 or choosing

2012-04-27 Thread Dan Lewis
On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 13:14 +0200, Didier Spaier wrote: On 27/04/2012 13:06, Dan Lewis wrote: On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 12:48 +0200, Didier Spaier wrote: Hello everybody, new to this list. I use : LibreOffice 3.5.2.2 Version ID : 350m1(Build:202) The package was compiled for Slackware

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