On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:31 PM, baldwin linguas
wrote:
>
> I downloaded
> http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/3.3.0-rc2/rpm/x86_64/LibO_3.3.0rc2_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz
> from the libreoffice.org/download/ page.
> the file is
> LibO_3.3.0rc2_Linux_x86-64_instal
>From another list
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Zed wrote:
> I have downloaded libreoffice-build-3.3.0.1 to install on my Desktop, which
> is running LMDE (a Mint edition based on Debian)
>
Well, yes - Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu, which is a derivative of Debian.
> Pasted below is the result of my ./configu
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Stefan Weigel
wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Am 17.01.2011 22:33, schrieb Tom Davies:
>
>> Thanks for the link. Yes, i think i was answering Edmund but i felt that
>> your
>> comment was also directly relevant. It is a bit difficult to tell because
>> you
>> have chopped
2011/1/18 Michal Olber :
> Hello
> I have one strange bug, which is in OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Some times,
> when I paste text or doing longer work, and want to save document as ctr+s,
> it close the main Window, but in manager this task is all the time.
> What i shaould do with this?
>
I'm no
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Stefan Weigel
wrote:
> Am 17.01.2011 23:03, schrieb MR ZenWiz:
>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Stefan Weigel
>> wrote:
>
:
>
>>> Well that´s just what you are supposed to do. ;-) See paragraph "2.
>>> Quoting and
This has happened to me twice now.
When I open a document in writer and it is the first LO open of
anything on my system, writer comes up, shows the window and then
crashes before the cursor appears in the window. When I restart it,
it comes up in the document recovery window, recovers the docume
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:39 PM, wrote:
> Try renaming ~/.libreoffice and see if that changes things. (You'll have to
> rebuild your customizations.) I had a similar problem on a Win7 install, but
> the *buntu installs have been fine.
Ouch. That worked, but it's clearly a backwards-compatibi
Ick. There were 21 files that changed and 37 that aren't in the new
set. Most of the differences were under the
3/user/extensions/bundled/registry/... path, 3 in uno_packages/cache
(no surprise there) and 2 in the 3/user/config directory, plus a
couple others.
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:27 PM,
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Edmund Laugasson
wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> Is there any release schedule of LibreOffice?
>
> I've found:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Product_Release
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease33
>
> ... but no one for LibreOffice...
>
> It
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:15 PM, wlb wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been trying to install the Libre Office onto my computer. I am using
> Ubuntu Linux, 10.10. I have tried several times to down load it, even one
> that took hours. I finally stopped it. I tried to follow the instructions,
> but I
2011/1/18 Fabián Rodríguez :
:
> 1) Open a terminal window under Applications > Accessories > Terminal
> 2) Type the following command to add the Ubuntu LibreOffice repository
> (remember to type ENTER at the end):
> *sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
> (you will need to enter your user p
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Alexander Thurgood
wrote:
> Le 19/01/11 06:43, Zed a écrit :
>>
>> Any advice how I can get the spell checker working, please? It is probably
>> something I have done incorrectly but I cannot think waht :-(
>
> This might actually be a bug of the RC3 version, I s
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> http://www.asterix.com/
> http://www.asterix.com/index.html.fr?rub=francais
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix
>
Fascinating, thank you, but irrelevant - asterix != asterisk.
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Olwe Melwasul
wrote:
> I just did some experimentation and found that a very short .doc will save
> just fine. Then I cut and paste more into it -- and sure enough, at some
> point it will not save anymore and goes "gray in the face" and locks up
> trying to. The
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Stefan Weigel
wrote:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOFU
>
> Don´t ask Google, better ask Wikipedia! :-D
>
In Google, the first result looks like this (without the html):
Tofu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tofu or bean curd is a food made by coagulating soy
2011/1/19 Fabián Rodríguez :
>
> I would welcome detailed, tested steps to do the same in a GUI with less
> than the 4 steps I enumerated. :) Using a PPA is already a stretch of
> using "Linux for human beings", so is going to LibreOffice so early.
>
It _is_ in beta test - it's not ready for prime
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:51:05PM -0500, wlb wrote:
>> Will LIbreOffice eventually be available on Ubuntu without having to do all
>> the technical stuff?
>
> Technical stuff..like turning on your computer, typing a command,
> and *gas
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:38 PM, baldwin linguas
wrote:
:
> I discuss this more here:
> http://baldwinsoftware.com/blog/?p=1329
Shameless, self-promoting plug
:-)
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:45 PM, baldwin linguas
wrote:
>
> You really, really make a great point.
> And, in fact, that's why I don't use all the gui stuff, dumped
> KDE and gnome and other eye-candy bloat years ago, and learned to use the
> CLI.
> (let's just call it, "for efficiency's sake")
> B
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:40 AM, wlb wrote:
> HI webmaster,
>
> I have decided to stick with what I have and wait until the program is more
> easily accessible.
>
I know that trying something new, like downloading and installing a
large software suite can be a bit intimidating, but this is one of
This darling .pps file causes LO rc3 not only to crash, but on every
attempt to recover, it crashes again, which pretty much crippled my LO
installation completely. I'm downloading rc4, but this is a serious
problem since every attempt to restart LO results in the recovery,
followed immediately by
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:11 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> This darling .pps file causes LO rc3 not only to crash, but on every
> attempt to recover, it crashes again, which pretty much crippled my LO
> installation completely. I'm downloading rc4, but this is a serious
> problem since
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:47 PM, NoOp wrote:
>
> Try with rc4 (works for me):
> http://www.libreoffice.org/download
It's worse. If I let it recover the files, it pauses for a few
seconds before it recognizes the "Next" and then it crashes again
after opening both windows (one went away - I don't
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:56 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>
:
>
> This effectively cripples LO completely and I can't use it at all now.
>
So, I went and renamed .libreoffice to .zlibreoffice and restarted LO.
It did the exact same thing that rc3 did the very first time I ran it
(a
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:28 AM, NoOp wrote:
>
> When you installed rc4 did you uninstall rc3?
> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/installation/linux/
>
> If you have a previously-existing installation of the community-supplied
> LibreOffice package for Linux, first follow the instructions in
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> LTR = Left To Right and covers languages such as English
> RTL = Right To Left and covers languages such as Arabic
>
I don't see those buttons on my Ubuntu 10.10 LORC4
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:38 AM, amine amine wrote:
> Salam,
>
> ok, so what about the RTL and LTR buttons on the formatting toolbar...?
>
You deleted all context, so I don't know whom you're asking in
reference to what.
I don't see these in the writer (Ubuntu 10.10 LORC4). You may be
getting t
Now that I'm on RC4, I'm seeing the Bullets and Numbering menu pane
come up in strange places again. This was a problem a while back,
like in the beta 1 or beta 2 releases, but it went away for a while.
I open a document whose first line is a heading with Oultine Numbering
set up, and the B&N men
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:10 PM, baldwin linguas
wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Eclipse wrote:
>> Catching passive voice and other basic grammar?
>
> It will catch disagreement between subect and predicate, in most
> cases, although sometimes erroneously,
> as well as adjective and a
Not sure which "you" you mean, but I have never seen a good grammar
checker anywhere. Period.
Way back in the stone age (of WordStar), there was a thing called
GrammaTek that did a really bad job of grammar-checking, but things
have progressed a little since then.
Word's grammar checker is the b
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:22 AM, baldwin linguas
wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:00 AM, webmas...@krackedpress.com
> wrote:
>>
>> What I really need to find is a Grammar checker that will spot
>> things that I miss with my "stroke damaged brain" or someone
>> with the symptoms of Dyslexia. P
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:22 AM, webmas...@krackedpress.com
wrote:
>
> I know that no system is perfect, but I could use whatever help there is
> out there for these tasks. There was talk on the OOo list a while back
> about a Grammar add-on project, but I do not know it it ever got finished.
>
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:54 PM, webmas...@krackedpress.com
wrote:
:
> The one on LibrePlanet for LO is listed as LanguageTool. [OOo has it as
> well].
> I installed that one the other day. Is this the one you hate or
> the one you like.
>
I think that was the one I hate. The one built into LO
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Cley Faye wrote:
> 2011/1/25 Andy Brown
>> On Tue Jan 25 2011 11:43:49 GMT-0800 (PST) Luuk wrote:
>>> On 25-01-11 20:38, J Huntemann wrote:
>>>
You can delete the desktop shortcut as well. Rite click select delete.
>>> But the question remains
>>> *WHY
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:06 AM, rendi.fadrillah
wrote:
>
> Im from Indonesia at Jakarta.
> I've tried to fix it but still can not work
> So how to solve this problem?
>
Some minimal information would help, like what platform are you
running and what have you done.
Although, technically, this is
If you are a member of LinkedIn, especially if you are an official
developer or tester, you might want to weigh in on this discussion:
http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&srchtype=discussedNews&gid=44772&item=41979536&type=member&trk=EML_anet_ac_pst_cmnt
LO isn't doing as well as I would have
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Rokas Slavinskas
wrote:
> You can send libreoffice.bat file to every windows user, when he open that
> file automaticlly program will be installed.
>
Edit, please?
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On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> Thanks for letting us know how you manage this. I only just got your email
> so i
> am sorry my response is so late!
> Many thanks and regards from
> Tom :)
>
Edit, please?
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
>
:
>
> It's user support where things fall flat on it's face. I only have one
> person in my family and friends who would even have a clue as to how to
> utilize a mailing list. It's way too cumbersome and clunky for the people I
> know. Eve
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Andy Brown wrote:
>
> Well, all I can say it that it works here. Browser opens a local file that
> looks like the web version of the help. Using Ubuntu.
>
This is the first time I've tried to use help in LO, and YUCK!
What is so wrong with having a genuine local
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Michel Gagnon wrote:
> Le 2011-02-03 21:49, MR ZenWiz a écrit :
>>
>> This is the first time I've tried to use help in LO, and YUCK!
>>
>> What is so wrong with having a genuine local help file for the
>> "LibreOffice Help
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:04 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Michel Gagnon wrote:
>> Le 2011-02-03 21:49, MR ZenWiz a écrit :
>>>
>>> This is the first time I've tried to use help in LO, and YUCK!
>>>
>>> What is so w
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Ken Springer wrote:
> Hi, Robert,
>
Do the words "Edit your replies to leave out what isn't relevant" mean
anything in this discussion?
You do know that this stuff is all archived and therefore need NOT be
included in every single reply, right?
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> OpenOffice and LibreOffice often create problems for each other when both are
> installed. Try uninstalling one of them and then reinstall the one you are
> keeping. Since they are both free uninstalling and reinstalling is relatively
This discussion is so off-topic it doesn't even belong on this email
list any more. Can you/we at least put it in a different topic thread
with a big [OT] in front so we can skip it from the summary list?
Ken, could you possibly stop using so much vertical space and shorten
your 14-line signature
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Luuk wrote:
>
> On 04-02-11 17:29, Ken Springer wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>:o >:o >:o !8-)
>
> This thread should be about LibreOffice, and not about how to use an
> emailclient...
>
Thank you, Luuk. It should also be noted that this thread is not for
making a di
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Ken Springer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:24 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>
>> This discussion is so off-topic it doesn't even belong on this email
>> list any more. Can you/we at least put it in a different topic thread
>> with a big
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>
>
Having a bad day?
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:02 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>>
>> Thank you. That was so helpful I just can't describe it.
>>
> When I read your reply, I was perplexed, and took your comment as a bit less
> than civil,
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Scott Jones wrote:
> Ok. You people are so off topic. Grow up and move on!
>
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On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Charles Marcus
wrote:
>
> These lists are *really* getting annoying, with all of the infighting,
> unnecessarily harsh criticism, and just downright rude and arrogant replies.
>
I generally attribute this sort of thing to bad days on the part of
whoever posts it -
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Baruch Burstein wrote:
> That works. But I don't want to and shouldn't have to change my theme just
> to make LO look normal!
>
That's the kind of penalty you pay for using Windows and large-text labels. :-)
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On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Abraham F. Levy wrote:
>>
> I would like to down load LO.
> I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 32 bit.
> The Web Site is giving me three choices,
> x86(deb)
> x64(rpm)
> x64(deb)
>
> Which is the correct version?
>
Actually there are four choices, but since you don't want rp
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:33 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions wrote:
>>
Please edit out the less relevant parts in replies you post. :-)
> What about the text that, if I read it correctly, LibreOffice and
> OpenOffice.org cannot be installed and run on the same machine? I know that
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> ____
> From: MR ZenWiz
> To: users@libreoffice.org
> Sent: Wed, 9 February, 2011 21:40:49
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Ubuntu - "don't install LibreOffice manually
> from the ".deb" files"
&g
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:23 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions wrote:
:
>
> I an running 64-bit Ubuntu/Debian installed with en-US language as my only
Slightly OT, but which is it? Ubuntu is not Debian and vice-versa.
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:13 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions wrote:
:
>
> but Ubuntu used the Debian install though, until it creates their own for
> their 11.04 repository.
>
To be precise, Debian is a Linux distribution upon which the Ubuntu
Linux distribution is based, but they are
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Colin J. Williams wrote:
> When I attempt to send a Writer document by email, I
> get:This worked OK with OOo 3.2.1.Colin W.PSIf this should be reported
> elsewhere, please advise
>
Something you did did not work right here - please repost with a) more
expla
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Thorsten Behrens
wrote:
> Dear Community,
>
> The Document Foundation is happy to announce the release candidate of
> LibreOffice 3.3.1. This release candidate is the first in a series of
> frequent bugfix releases on top of our LibreOffice 3.3 product. Please
> be
I recently send a friend of mine a spreadsheet I built in LO Calc and
had it write in .xls format (MS Excel). There were two columns of
dates in the spreadsheet. When my friend opened the spreadsheet in
QP, the date columns all came up as "12:00am" instead of a date. He
did some playing with it
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:59 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> I recently send a friend of mine a spreadsheet I built in LO Calc and
> had it write in .xls format (MS Excel). There were two columns of
> dates in the spreadsheet. When my friend opened the spreadsheet in
> QP, the date columns
A while back I posted an issue to this list that whenever I clicked on
the Help function in Writer (or Calc or any of the other LO apps), it
would attempt to access something, probably a web page, and then
crash.
With 3.3.1 rc1, I downloaded and installed LO and the English lang
pack and help pack
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:17 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions wrote:
>
> I find that LibreOffice starts up very quickly and takes only a few
> seconds from the time I click on the icon to the time I can use it.
> So is it a real advantage of having the quick starter option active
> over
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Luuk wrote:
> On 15-02-11 19:13, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>> Ubuntu 10.04
>> I downloaded and installed OO 3.3 direct from OO because I need the
>> integration with Thunderbird addressbook (the Ubuntu-supplied OO
>> doesn't have that).
>> I now want to replace
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
:
>
> Is there something wrong with educating new users?
>
Only that it takes some effort, like bottom posting, being courteous,
keeping logical threads, posting only what needs to be posted and so
on.
IOW, too much work for the lazy.
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:50 AM, jcg wrote:
>
> Hi,
> When the quickstarter of libreOffice is activated it prevents the shutdown
> of ubuntu. this is also true for ooo and it's a well known reported bug
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/562027)!!
That link went nowh
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:07 PM, plino wrote:
>
> I'm an advanced Windows user but absolute Linux newbie.
>
Not uncommmon.
:
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu/dists/karmic/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> 404 Not Found
>
I'm guessing that you don't have that
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 04:36:49PM -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> :
>> >
>> > Is there something wrong with educating new users?
>> >
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> No, i wasn't saying that anyone was deliberately unfriendly but i think we
> need
> to have better ways of dealing with top-posters because we often give an
> appearance of rudeness.
>
> People that do top-post are unlikely to be awa
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Charles Marcus
wrote:
> On 2011-02-16 3:05 PM, Charles Marcus wrote:
>> On 2011-02-12 10:11 PM, Alan Shore wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Luiz Oliveira wrote:
Icons are beautiful even as said Florian on twitter. I installed it
>> on the stable
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Cliff Scott wrote:
> ** Reply to message from Tom Davies on Wed, 16 Feb
> 2011 15:28:03 + (GMT)
>
Really? You had to repost the entire conversation, which is already
preserved indelibly in the archive?
A little context is fine (and a good idea), but *not* t
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:32 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions wrote:
>
> I tired a PPA several times with Ubuntu 9.x and 10.04. It failed have the
> time
> I tried to install anything via PPA. So I do not use it.
>
Gary already explained that - it isn't there.
> I think we need to ma
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>
> Check this site: http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> especially the part about curt answers.
>
I have often practiced exactly that sort of "discussion" - but usually
on the technical users' lists.
If we want people to
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Dwayne Barber wrote:
> how can I set Libre as the default program to open power point email messages?
>
That would depend a lot on what you did not tell us: which OS? What
window manager? What email client?
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Charles Marcus
wrote:
>
:
> Anyway, I still really don't care for these 'new' icons much - they look
> too cartoonish to me...
>
I'll give you that one - they look seriously amateurish.
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Charles Marcus
wrote:
> On 2011-02-16 7:45 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>> Really? You had to repost the entire conversation, which is already
>> preserved indelibly in the archive?
>>
>> A little context is fine (and a good idea), but *
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
>
> Most linux distros and Windows platforms all have a very similar gui
> point&click
> way of doing this.
>
Similar but a) not the same and b) sufficiently different to be worth
the distinction.
> First save one of the email files to your mach
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Charles Marcus
wrote:
> On 2011-02-17 7:37 AM, Karl Lambert wrote:
>> That does not work on my windows xp machine. Pretty bothersome.
>
> I have had a few times when setting the file associations with 'Open
> with' did not work, and it turned out to be registry pe
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Charles Marcus
wrote:
:
>
> As I said, and should be obvious from his replies, he *is* quoting the
> text of the original message... the problem is he isn't taking the 5
> seconds required to delete all the garbage before clicking send.
>
> In other words, he is be
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Luuk wrote:
:
>
> I think i'm goint to activate my yahoo-mail account too on this list ;)
>
Please don't - these look just fine.
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
:
> The first point is not news; it's more 'olds'. Same with the 2nd point. The
> 3rd point is an unpopular idea in this list that leads to bullying and is just
> sad for an "Office Suite" list = it's an office suite for techies & geeks, not
> f
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
:
>
> Unfortunately it shows that bottom posting involves more work than most office
> workers are prepared to do and if we demand that they do all this then they
> will
> often consider it easier to reinstall MS Office rather than deal with thi
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
>
:
> I don't have a viable choice at the moment = otherwise i would move away from
> Yahoo.
I used to love Yahoo - until they deactivated my original account with
no notice, no recourse and no response. I lost over 160MB of email, my
whole cont
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Charles Marcus
wrote:
:
>
> If that is too much work for you or anyone else for that matter, then I
> accuse you (and them) of being (a) lazy sob(s)... ;)
>
Boo hoo (sobs? :-)!
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Charles Marcus
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> On 2011-02-17 2:25 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>> Boo hoo (sobs? :-)!
>
> SOB... 'Son of a ...'... ;)
>
Oh, I thought it was a typo (for slob). Slobs sobbing about SOBs - it
just gets worse and worse
I sho
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
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:
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> Yes, "on your way down" and "delete that which is not needed" and "Going back
> and proofreading" do all take time and require effort that top-posting doesn't
> require. you might only have a 'small' amount of emails to deal with and
>
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> All the problems listed are solved by simply top-posting.
The only problems that top-posting solves is the problem of providing
a quality answer to technical questions. Lazy is as lazy does.
If it's too much work to do a good job, don't do i
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Simon Cropper
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have essentially tuned out over the last few days as the debate raged
> regarding top posting and bottom posting. I went back over the threads today
> but did nor really discover what is "wanted" or "preferred".
>
> When joining thi
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Roy Day wrote:
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> The file extension is "*.dox" - Multimate is one of the first word
> processors in the 1980's. It was before your time. Eventually, Microsoft's
> WORD appeared, and then WORD PERFECT, etc. Ashton-Tate was one of the main
> and major computer
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:37 AM, wrote:
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> Please take me off your lists!!!
>
If you take just a fraction of a second to read the footer below
(which happens to get appended to every single message posted to this
discussion list), you'll see how you can remove yourself from the list
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
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> If they use LibreOffice they are behaving differently. It is much more
> difficult to transition to using LibreOffice than to learn to bottom post
> with proper clipping.
>
But some people will claim that this one extra step is just too muc
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
:
>
> Hi Tom:
>
> I don't believe this is the issue. It is more of a mentorship and guiding
> suggestion for people joining and making use of the list. I don't believe
> for a second that we would jump on newcomers and demand they follow a
> list-
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:35 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
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> As I've said before in other wording, if one is going to contribute by
> helping others, one needs to give up one's ego about how to do it,
> follow the conventions and make sure that they give the *bets* help
> p
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Avraham Hanadari wrote:
> The fact that the table tool bar opens when I am in a table, but disappears
> whenever I move to surrounding parts of the page makes the entire page jump
> up and down in a most disturbing manner. I use tables a lot and would be
> very hap
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:40 AM, wrote:
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> please take me off your list
>
You need to ask the person who put you on this list to take you off.
(Hint: It wasn't us.)
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:14 AM, emarkay wrote:
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> MR. ZW, let's play nice now, OK? :)
>
Depends on whom I'm playing with - with you, no problem.
> So regarding the thread of substance, what is DIFFERENT about the Ubuntu vs.
> Deb, vs "official" LO application? I didn't think that the Canonica
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> HI :)
>
> The person is asking for help and is obviously desperate and having problems
> with instructions.
If this had been a single posting, I would agree with you. Multiple
posts demanding action that most of us cannot perform will not pro
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
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:
> I find the ribbon bar much easier to use than the old menus and they look
> prettier. People mostly just don't like them because they are unfamiliar and
> we
> all like to stay in our comfort zones. LibreOffice is better despite having
>
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Avraham Hanadari wrote:
>
> Thanks for your remarks.
>
You're welcome.
> I have tried docking the tool bar, but it still appears and disappears
> according as I am in or not in a table. The least annoying dock is on the
> side of the screen, but it still knocks t
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