[libreoffice-users] Writer - Split cell problem in DOC format

2012-09-27 Thread Mike
the file in odt or docx or even rtf format, the table is displayed correctly. I don't have access to bugzilla, but pass this information on to confirm the existence of this problem (and also hope it will be fixed soon). Mike -- View this message in context: http

Re: [libreoffice-users] restore windows

2011-10-05 Thread Mike
I will have to wait and check tomorrow. Sorry Sent from my iPhone On 5 oct. 2011, at 16:54, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: Hi Michael, Michael Guillet wrote (05-10-11 08:18) ... I got a error message Restore Windows and I don't know how to get rid of it, I tried reinstalling it and

Re: [libreoffice-users] restore windows

2011-10-07 Thread Mike
Looked through all the folders in the 3/user folder and didnt find a ~.lock file. Sent from my iPhone On 7 oct. 2011, at 14:26, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Deleting (or renaming) the 3 folder 'should' fix it. In the folder where the problematic file is there might be

Re: [libreoffice-users] restore windows

2011-10-07 Thread Mike
Ok, i am trying to open LOffice from the application folder. Sent from my iPhone On 7 oct. 2011, at 15:52, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/10/2011 14:47, Mike wrote: Looked through all the folders in the 3/user folder and didnt find a ~.lock file. The ~lock file

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: list box in database

2011-10-14 Thread Mike
Ok Andreas, I am going to study for a while with this one, i will let you know what i come up with. Michael Sent from my iPhone On 13 oct. 2011, at 15:48, Andreas Säger saege...@t-online.de wrote: Am 13.10.2011 13:06, Michael Guillet wrote: Hello, I was finally able to connect my LO

[libreoffice-users] 3.5.2 Release Notes

2012-04-23 Thread Mike
and 3.5.2. I found a detailed bug list on the wiki, but it doesn't help from a user perspective. Sorry if this is a dumb question. I'm new here. Thanks, Mike -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/3-5-2-Release-Notes-tp3931342p3931342.html Sent from the Users mailing list

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice

2011-04-16 Thread Mike.
On 4/16/2011 at 2:07 AM plino wrote: [snip] | |On a second (and probably more important) front, Microsoft silently retired |the Office Genuine Advantage check which prevented illegal copies to be |updated |http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/microsoft-quietly-shuts-down-office-genu

[libreoffice-users] Writer - envelope printing format problem

2011-05-14 Thread Mike.
Running: LibreOffice 3.3.2 OOO330m19 (Build:202) tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2 Windows 7, 64-bit I am trying to print an envelope in Writer. I selected the command Insert Envelope pick the proper envelope (#6 3/4) and then put the Sender and Addressee text in the fields. When I print the

[libreoffice-users] Writer - envelope printing format problem

2011-05-19 Thread Mike.
Running: LibreOffice 3.3.2 OOO330m19 (Build:202) tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2 Windows 7, 64-bit I am trying to print an envelope in Writer. I selected the command Insert Envelope pick the proper envelope (#6 3/4) and then put the Sender and Addressee text in the fields. When I print the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer - envelope printing format problem

2011-05-21 Thread Mike.
On 5/19/2011 at 3:41 PM NoOp wrote: |On 05/14/2011 09:18 AM, Mike. wrote: | Running: | | LibreOffice 3.3.2 OOO330m19 (Build:202) tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2 | Windows 7, 64-bit | | | | I am trying to print an envelope in Writer. I selected the command | | Insert Envelope | | pick the proper

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer - envelope printing format problem

2011-05-22 Thread Mike.
On 5/21/2011 at 9:18 PM Cliff Scott wrote: |** Reply to message from Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com on Sat, 21 May 2011 |11:42:25 -0400 | | On 5/19/2011 at 3:41 PM NoOp wrote: | | |On 05/14/2011 09:18 AM, Mike. wrote: | | Running: | | | | LibreOffice 3.3.2 OOO330m19 (Build:202) tag libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer - envelope printing format problem

2011-05-23 Thread Mike.
On 5/22/2011 at 1:52 PM Larry Gusaas wrote: |This encoded message has been converted to an attachment. | |On 2011/05/22 8:42 AM Mike. wrote: The problem is not the printer |driver. Envelopes used to print correctly for me in an earlier version |of OpenOffice. Something happened in either

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer - envelope printing format problem

2011-05-23 Thread Mike.
On 5/22/2011 at 12:03 PM NoOp wrote: |On 05/21/2011 08:42 AM, Mike. wrote: | On 5/19/2011 at 3:41 PM NoOp wrote: |... | |I'm not sure why, but please check |Insert|Envelope|Format and see if | |the settings are (these are in inches): | | | |Addressee | |Position | | from left: 3.25 | | from

[libreoffice-users] Multi-source Mail Merge

2015-05-10 Thread Mike
Regarding: I have multiple spreadsheet files that each represent one unique item. As an analogy, think of the spreadsheet as a basket that contains a variety of eggs (both calculated and hand-entered data). I have multiple baskets each with multiple eggs. Each basket (spreadsheet) is associated

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Calc-keep cell from imitating prior cell

2018-01-29 Thread Mike
On 1/29/2018 4:24 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote: > Calc tends to copy what it thinks is the same entry from a prior cell in a > column. My problem is how to keep it from doing that. > > Somewhere in a column I have ‘crème’. Now LO won’t let me enter ‘creme’ > without the accent grave. How do I tell

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Calc-keep cell from imitating prior cell

2018-01-29 Thread Mike
On 1/29/2018 5:04 PM, Mike wrote: > On 1/29/2018 4:24 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote: >> Calc tends to copy what it thinks is the same entry from a prior cell in a >> column. My problem is how to keep it from doing that. >> >> Somewhere in a column I have ‘crème’. Now L

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: how to disable table's tool tips

2018-02-09 Thread Mike
On 2/8/2018 10:09 AM, Mike wrote: > LO 5.4.4.2 (x64) on Windows AMD64 > > Is there any way to turn off the tool tips associated with tables > ("Select table row", "Adjust table row" etc., etc.)? > > They are incredibly annoying, constantly popping

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer: how to disable table's tool tips

2018-02-09 Thread Mike
On 2/9/2018 12:16 PM, V Stuart Foote wrote: > Just hit to immediately dismiss the tool-tip. Otherwise the tip will > appear for 4 seconds. >[snip] For me, that's not even a workaround. My left hand is on the mouse, not the keyboard. I'm somewhat surprised that such an annoying UI "feature" has

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer: how to disable table's tool tips

2018-02-10 Thread Mike
On 2/10/2018 4:30 AM, Heiko Tietze wrote: > Why don't you write a ticket on Bugzilla? There are always ways to suppress > tooltips completely. > That was my next step. I know about suppressing tool tips completely (found it in google), but I'd want to avoid that because I usually find them

[libreoffice-users] Writer: how to disable table's tool tips

2018-02-08 Thread Mike
LO 5.4.4.2 (x64) on Windows AMD64 Is there any way to turn off the tool tips associated with tables ("Select table row", "Adjust table row" etc., etc.)? They are incredibly annoying, constantly popping up over the text I am trying to read and/or edit. In addition to being annoying, they are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Web Hosting?

2013-04-14 Thread Mike McCallister
On 4/14/2013 6:34 AM, Jeffrey Brown wrote: I have created a powerpoint and have saved it as an html document. How would I go about publishing it as a web page on the Internet? Any free web hosting services out there? Of course, if it's really just a

[libreoffice-users] DDE Links from calc to writer

2013-06-13 Thread Mike Shaul
to the changes in calc but about 20% does not. Could this be due to having too many links? I have about 3400 DDE links. I'm using: LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 Linux mint Cinnamon I should also say that on a scale from 1-10 on computer knowledge I'm at best a 5. Thank you in advance, -Mike

[libreoffice-users] DDE Links from calc to writer

2013-06-14 Thread Mike Shaul
Is there such a thing as to many DDE links? Original Message From: Mike Shaul m...@shaulph.ca Sent: Thu Jun 13 15:04:39 PDT 2013 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] DDE Links from calc to writer Hello all, I have created a document in writer that has

RE: [libreoffice-users] DDE Links from calc to writer

2013-06-14 Thread Mike Shaul
Thank you Brian That Helped out! It was a stupid mistake. The links were corrupted! -- Shaul's Plumbing and Heating Ltd. 778-397-4850 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Battle of the Office Suites: Microsoft Office and LibreOffice Compared

2013-08-18 Thread Mike McCallister
On 8/18/2013 10:11 AM, Urmas wrote: Werner F. Bruhin: Now a productive use of time would have been to tell us what the one feature you would like to have which existed in Word 2.0 in 1991 and doesn't exist in LO. Paragraphs longer than 65k characters? Custom languages? Normal view? (Working)

[libreoffice-users] impress, dual screen, dual x servers

2012-06-28 Thread Mike Scott
be done using xdmx, but that adds a whole new level of complexity!) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unable to save Anchor as Character as default style Build 3.5.42

2012-07-03 Thread Mike Scott
=1975 (I don't have LO to hand to test, but it seems accurate for AOO) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more

Re: [libreoffice-users] Locking a single cell in a Calc sheet using a macro

2012-07-19 Thread Mike Scott
outside my own skills - but does http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9t=34393 give insight? (Googling for 'openoffice CellProtection.IsLocked' came up with several likely-looking hits. Although one said it couldn't be done :-{ ) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England

[libreoffice-users] Problem with export to PDF

2013-12-30 Thread MATRAVERS, Mike
this can result in the corrupted output being sent by me to someone important. Is there a solution please? Thank you -- Para cualquier consulta adicional contacte con nosotros Mike Gunner, Director *INFORMATICA MATRAVERS S.L.U.* Especialistas en nuevas tecnologías para la educación m...@infomat.es Tel

[libreoffice-users] Base Hyperlinks

2011-09-19 Thread Mike Alksninis
In Libre Base, is there a way to convert text to hyperlink when running reports? I input text data into a table that is a weblink (Http:\\www.etc.com), but I am only able to format it into text. When I run a report that displays the data, I would like to have clickable links in those

[libreoffice-users] Question Concerning your product

2011-12-21 Thread Mike Watson
I am considering downloading your product to avoid having to buy Microsoft Office. But I have a question about your product. On your Features page you said that the LGPL public license could be hacked by the user. What does that mean? Does it mean that anyone can hack it? Please reply

[libreoffice-users] Import of 3D sketchup models into draw

2012-03-22 Thread Mike Baldwin
trying out the built in 3d generation facility in draw got me thinking. Is there a possibility of including a an import option in draw for models created in Google Sketchup which you can then rotate within Draw to show various view points and annotate in order to help create technical drawings.

[libreoffice-users] Calc function

2012-04-18 Thread Mike Phelan
I am trying to automatically remove a number from a range of cells, if it appears in a different range. I am creating a spreadsheet where once a number appears in B4:G11 4 times, it changes color to Red...got that part. Then I want to manually enter that number somewhere into J4:N21. once

Re: unsubscribing Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.4: 100% faster

2012-05-31 Thread Mike Phelan
I have followed the unsubscribe instructions *_twice_* in the last month, and still am getting 30-40 e-mails a day. *_PLEASE_* make them stop! Mike Phelan Innovative Woodworking www.InnovativeWoodworking.com 508-875-3262 On 5/31/2012 10:21 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Please follow

Re: [libreoffice-users] Please disregard the previous messages, this is the correct link

2011-05-30 Thread Mike Scott
with symbols glued out-of-line above particular words and moving with text edits. (Guitar chord symbols over corresponding text, if you must know :-) The real problem was the OOo documentation; I can copy relevant descriptions to here from that thread if it's any use. -- Mike Scott Harlow

Re: unsubscribing (was: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Trivia Question - Further Observation)

2011-05-31 Thread Mike Scott
subject line you'll get more folk's attention. And simply saying without success won't help anyone diagnose possible problems - /exactly how/ did you try to unsubscribe? What happened (or not) as a result? -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h

[libreoffice-users] Impress query

2011-05-31 Thread Mike Scott
seem to coexist happily on ubuntu, it's not quite trivial just to try lo. :-( ) Thanks. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http

top and bottom - again. was (Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: new article - with quote from TDF.......)

2011-06-01 Thread Mike Scott
. It's going to be a long hot summer. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List

[libreoffice-users] impress and video glitch

2014-12-20 Thread Mike Scott
nothing on the web even mentioning this issue. I'm hoping I'm just missing something simple! I'd be grateful for any help - I'm trying to get this running for tomorrow. Thanks. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] impress and video glitch

2014-12-22 Thread Mike Scott
in the New Year (and maybe even trying it on Apache's OOO). It really was a show stopper for me, and I'm surprised nobody else has raised the issue. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get

Re: [libreoffice-users] splitting page over multiple sheets

2015-01-14 Thread Mike Scott
the option's not offered in Writer or Calc. Has anyone actually used it in Draw? On 14 January 2015 at 12:19, Mike Scott m...@scottsonline.org.uk wrote: I may be missing something obvious here. take a Draw document with a page size set to A2 (say), and try to print on A4 paper

Re: [libreoffice-users] styles in text boxes

2015-01-15 Thread Mike Scott
On 13/01/15 16:17, Wiebe van der Worp wrote: On 13-01-15 11:54, Mike Scott wrote: Why are text styles not available to use within text boxes? ... However, I'd like to use styles to ensure consistency, and this appears simply impossible - only one style, the box style, is available (in Draw

Re: [libreoffice-users] installation problem LO4.4 - linux mint

2015-02-13 Thread Mike Scott
. User installation could not be completed. ... -- Mike Scott (unet2 at [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-30 Thread Mike Scott
be removed from the list of mirrors until they sort out their act. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- 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

Re: [libreoffice-users] File-Send-Document As doesn't!

2015-01-13 Thread Mike Scott
On 12/01/15 19:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 12/01/15 17:09, Mike Scott wrote: 4.2.7 on Mint 17 here; failed miserably until I went to Tools|Options and under Internet explicitly set /usr/bin/thunderbird as the email client. Worth a whirl? That works! But the user shouldn't have to do

[libreoffice-users] styles in text boxes

2015-01-13 Thread Mike Scott
generated) are clearly used internally to handle the [manual] formatting -- AFAICS it's just the interface that doesn't offer the knobs and twiddlies needed. Thoughts? (*) other than text to which the user has applied manual character formatting. -- Mike Scott (unet2 at [deletethis

[libreoffice-users] splitting page over multiple sheets

2015-01-14 Thread Mike Scott
- but the left edge of the page appears replicated in the right margin. Does this option actually work? I notice the documentation avoids its mention! TIA. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http

Re: [libreoffice-users] File-Send-Document As doesn't!

2015-01-12 Thread Mike Scott
://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems

Re: [libreoffice-users] installation problem LO4.4 - linux mint

2015-02-14 Thread Mike Scott
On 13/02/15 18:24, sqroot wrote: thanks mike! adding the ppa means, you did not remove the old LO-version in the first place? Correct. I added the ppa, did a refresh, and was offered the new versions in synaptic. (Irrelevant probably, but synaptic then refused to actually do the upgrade

Re: [libreoffice-users] merging layers

2015-05-11 Thread Mike Scott
to the current layer (a la Gimp or Photoshop); I don't really see the point as it stands. (LO 4.4.3.2/Mint 17, btw) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to make formulas permanently case sensitive?

2015-05-15 Thread Mike Scott
to add.) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to make formulas permanently case sensitive?

2015-05-18 Thread Mike Scott
|Properties dialogue. I'll not hold my breath though. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- 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

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to make formulas permanently case sensitive?

2015-05-19 Thread Mike Scott
with global settings. There seems to be a similar issue with precision as shown on the same settings page. Not that I, personally, would ever, ever countenance that as an available option in the first place. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to insert path/filename in draw

2015-06-27 Thread Mike Scott
? -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spreadsheets

2015-06-15 Thread Mike Scott
gnucash that's designed specifically for such jobs? (And as free as LO.) -- Mike Scott (unet2 at [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how

Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically

2015-05-28 Thread Mike Scott
that takes a directory as argument, looks up all the relevant files therein, and runs an appropriate soffice command to open them. It could even be portable, with care :-) (No doubt python would be preferred these days.) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users

Re: [libreoffice-users] One more question on Drawing Object styles

2015-06-29 Thread Mike Scott
can't see them. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 5.0 Review Rating | PCMag.com

2015-08-19 Thread Mike Scott
-01T16:57:00+00:00 and the page says Version 4.0, recently released, looks a lot like the long-running 3.x series, but I'm definitely in the northern hemisphere, unless continental drift has increased :-) I wish these guys would date their reviews! -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 5.0 Review Rating | PCMag.com

2015-08-19 Thread Mike Scott
. Weird. ... Does Bro Scott have an ancestral bias for the Fatal Shore powerful enough to invert the internet? Nope. Gaelic ancestry if anything (or so I'm told). Does that count? I wonder if they've redundant servers with load balancing, and one's out of sync. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 5.0 Review Rating | PCMag.com

2015-08-20 Thread Mike Scott
On 19/08/15 23:05, Steve Edmonds wrote: ... Mike, check the URL you end up at from that link. I get redirected to http://au.pcmag.com/libreoffice-40/2249/review/libreoffice-40 from the www.pcmag.com site. Steve http://uk.pcmag.com/office-suites-products/2249/review/libreoffice Somewhat

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 5.0 Review Rating | PCMag.com

2015-08-20 Thread Mike Scott
-- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http

Re: [libreoffice-users] writer: repeat a cell content (string) in a cell or in text

2015-07-22 Thread Mike Scott
On 21/07/15 20:48, Brian Barker wrote: At 15:45 21/07/2015 +0100, Mike Scott wrote: On 21/07/15 14:41, Brian Barker wrote: Yes: create what you need in a spreadsheet and copy and paste the required cell range into your text document. It will appear as a table but will function like

Re: [libreoffice-users] writer: repeat a cell content (string) in a cell or in text

2015-07-21 Thread Mike Scott
the spreadsheet object for editing. Referring back to my recent comments, this really should be the default action for anything table-like. IMO. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Frames v text boxes

2015-11-10 Thread Mike Scott
low this in the first place.) I'm sure this must be documented somewhere. All I've done is look at content.xml, and potter a bit for a few minutes, so may well be missing something important. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tooo many messages on this mailing list?? How to avoid being swamped ...

2015-10-15 Thread Mike Scott
ntly from each other. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- 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.documentfound

[libreoffice-users] brochure printing

2015-10-07 Thread Mike Scott
have had to create an A5 document, specify A4 landscape paper, and brochure mode would then print my A5 pages unscaled, 2-up. Is my memory wrong? If things have changed, what was the rationale? - the latter way seem IMO much more convenient. Thanks!! -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis

Re: [libreoffice-users] brochure printing RESOLVED

2015-10-08 Thread Mike Scott
nd orientation are saved. Curious design. Anyway, problem solved; apologies again, and thanks for your patience. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsu

[libreoffice-users] Re: file dialogue choice

2015-10-10 Thread Mike Scott
areas labelled "Load", "Save" and "Default File Format and ODF Settings" each with a number of checkboxes. Nothing anywhere to restore my preferred dialogue box style. Anyone any idea how to switch back please? -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: file dialogue choice

2015-10-10 Thread Mike Scott
On 10/10/15 15:02, Mike Scott wrote: On 10/10/15 14:30, Graham Luffrum wrote: Under my version of LO 5.0.2.2 (under Linux Mint 17.2 32 bit) I still have the choice between LO's dialogues and the system dialogues. Curious. I've got "Version: 5.0.2.2 Build ID: 00m0(Build:2) Locale:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in Impress

2015-10-09 Thread Mike Scott
paper tray from printer preferences" and "Use only size form printer preferences" in the tab "Options". Kind regards Regina -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreo

Re: [libreoffice-users] brochure printing

2015-10-07 Thread Mike Scott
On 07/10/15 11:58, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Mike, Mike Scott schrieb: Can someone settle my mind please here? Has the page size setup changed at some point for doing brochure printing from Writer? I don't do this too often, so my memory may be wrong. However, I find this week that to make

Re: [libreoffice-users] brochure printing

2015-10-07 Thread Mike Scott
On 07/10/15 12:56, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Mike, Mike Scott schrieb: [..] Unfortunately I don't seem to have any choice in the matter. Whatever page size I set (format|page) is /always/ transferred automatically to printer settings, and shows up there greyed out and unchangeable. When I set

Re: [libreoffice-users] brochure printing

2015-10-07 Thread Mike Scott
On 07/10/15 13:51, Mike Scott wrote: ... But given LO has the brochure facility, it really ought to work consistently. If I can work out how without blowing the system apart, I'll perhaps try reverting to V4.x and see what happens. I think I see what's going wrong. Could someone check please

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in Impress and file dialogue choice

2015-10-10 Thread Mike Scott
On 09/10/15 20:24, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Mike Scott wrote: On 09/10/15 12:43, Malcolm Moore wrote: ... This is outstandingly horrible ! Yes. My summary for anyone in the same boat suffering from brain failure at the end of the week: . It will then work

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in Impress

2015-10-09 Thread Mike Scott
, and then a substantive change is made followed by a save, the print info is saved as well. But if you need to change it again, you have to go through the whole procedure again. At least it seems that way after a quick experiment. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England

Re: [libreoffice-users] spreadsheet not calculating correctly

2015-07-10 Thread Mike Scott
I'll archive the problem file and let the issue drop; and pay extra careful attention to results in future. Thanks again. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2015-07-09 20:40 GMT+02:00 Mike Scott v...@scottsonline.org.uk mailto:v...@scottsonline.org.uk: On 09/07/15 14:08, Cley Faye wrote

[libreoffice-users] spreadsheet not calculating correctly

2015-07-09 Thread Mike Scott
/table:table-celltable:table-cell table:number-columns-repeated=1020//table:table-row -- Mike Scott (unet2 at [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists

Re: [libreoffice-users] spreadsheet not calculating correctly

2015-07-10 Thread Mike Scott
), storage of which for some reason went wrong somewhere. -- Mike Scott (unet2 at [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unable to Protect/Unprotect cells in Libreoffice 5

2015-08-27 Thread Mike Scott
On 27/08/15 14:01, Tanstaafl wrote: On 8/27/2015 8:51 AM, Mike Scott v...@scottsonline.org.uk wrote: On 27/08/15 13:30, Tanstaafl wrote: I just discovered - after updating a lot of our users - that apparently this is broken in the first 5.x release. There simply is no 'Cell' context menu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unable to Protect/Unprotect cells in Libreoffice 5

2015-08-27 Thread Mike Scott
confirm this? Yes. (5.0.0.5/mint) There's a main menu option Table|Protect Cells, but apparently no inverse. However, it seems you can R-click on the table in the navigator and unprotect the entire table. Clumsy. -- Mike Scott (unet2 at [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England

[libreoffice-users] anchoring frame to character - problems positioning

2015-09-01 Thread Mike Scott
cular reason for the GUI's low limit??) -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ P

Re: [libreoffice-users] anchoring frame to character - problems positioning

2015-09-03 Thread Mike Scott
On 01/09/15 15:47, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: Hello Mike I might suggest you use something that is a little more direct. Always a good idea... in spite of keeping a careful eye open, I missed the first two you listed. http://sourceforge.net/projects/softchord/ http://www.opensong.org/pages

Re: [libreoffice-users] anchoring frame to character - problems positioning

2015-09-05 Thread Mike Scott
On 04/09/15 21:10, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Mike Scott wrote: ... The goal is to print music lyrics with chord (text) appropriately aligned above the lyrics. The ultimate goal is to create the .odt document programmatically: I'm most of the way there, but the way

solved: Re: [libreoffice-users] page numbering oddity

2015-09-15 Thread Mike Scott
On 15/09/15 18:32, Brian Barker wrote: At 16:08 15/09/2015 +0100, Mike Scott wrote: I'm using LO 5.0.1.2 on Mint. There's an oddity about page numbering, in which differing page styles change the start page number and total page count. So, I start LO and make, say, a fresh 3-page document

[libreoffice-users] page numbering oddity

2015-09-15 Thread Mike Scott
here that LO has a hard-wired opinion that page 1 is on the right of a double-page spread. The killer is that I can't find an obvious way to fix things up manually - can anyone help please? I'm hoping I'm just missing something glaringly obvious. Thanks. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, Eng

RE: [libreoffice-users] Clean up/optimize/canonicalize a .odt file

2015-09-26 Thread Mike Cowlishaw
> Hello Mike, > > You may want to get in touch with the Document Liberation > project, our sister project: > http://www.documentliberation.org . They may be interested by > your input. I'll take a look ... thanks. Mike -- To unsubscribe e-mail

RE: [libreoffice-users] Clean up/optimize/canonicalize a .odt file

2015-09-27 Thread Mike Cowlishaw
l formatting, so any manual editing of the tags (or redoing the formatting) isn't really an option. That said .. perhaps exporting it to some other format then reloading it would preserve content and formatting and omit the redundant tags? Any suggestions as to which format to try would be welcome (no

[libreoffice-users] Reset for tracked changes

2015-09-30 Thread Mike Cowlishaw
changes since a given date' would probably be OK, but as the timestamps in the XML are in local time(!) it would have to be used with care ... Mike Cowlishaw -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how

RE: [libreoffice-users] Reset for tracked changes

2015-09-30 Thread Mike Cowlishaw
I need. Many thanks! Mike -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/

[libreoffice-users] Clean up/optimize/canonicalize a .odt file

2015-09-25 Thread Mike Cowlishaw
) of redundant tags. These are typically in the context: text1text2 where 'whatever' is identical, and either or both 'text1' or 'text2' may be empty. It there a tool to clean these up? I could write one myself (I recently wrote an XML parser) but if one already exists ... Many thanks -- Mike

Re: [libreoffice-users] precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread Mike Scott
standing unfixed issue: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11=9688 (from 2008) If you work in mm, the 2 decimal places the GUI so unreasonably forces will give a precision of 10μm. Not altogether convenient for the "traditionally minded" among us though :-) -- Mike Scott (unet2

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread Mike Scott
to about 3mm because the entries are rounded by the GUI to 2 dp in feet. Rational behaviour? Not from a user's POV. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread Mike Scott
or km, and "Lines" - whatever they are. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines +

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc - Count a "similar sequence"

2016-06-07 Thread Mike Scott
ilable for windows). But the OP did actually specify "similar", not "identical", in which case one is entering very murky waters, and a precise definition of 'similar' is needed. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To u

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: background color in cells invisible

2016-06-10 Thread Mike Scott
(linux) has two protection options under the Tools menu. IIRC it used to be in a different place though. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.or

[libreoffice-users] unwanted 'document recovery' dialogue (was: Re: Cannot delete horizontal red line)

2016-01-19 Thread Mike Scott
precise). Using Mint 17. Never an issue with 4.whatever-it-was. I use Writer, save and exit, and am occasionally immediately greeted by the recovery dialogue followed (IIRC) by the generic LO startup window. Anyone else noticed this? It's not repeatable to order, and is quite unpredictable.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: No indent in footnotes

2016-03-24 Thread Mike Scott
commenting on either PoV, does this not suggest that footnote formatting (and probably other similar issues) should have a default controlled by the locale? -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffi

Re: [libreoffice-users] 5.1.1 breaks anchored-as-character frames

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Scott
/download/libreoffice-fresh/?type=deb-x86_64==sv ​ I don't know how to install an old version using Synaptic and the standard package-management system, which Mike referred to, but it is possible to install software directly, as Henri describes. Yes, I've seen that, thanks (I replied to Regina

(resolved) Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 5.1.1 breaks anchored-as-character frames

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Scott
learned a bit more about dpkg and friends! -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how

Re: [libreoffice-users] 5.1.1 breaks anchored-as-character frames

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Scott
/download/libreoffice-fresh/?type=deb-x86_64==sv ​ I don't know how to install an old version using Synaptic and the standard package-management system, which Mike referred to, but it is possible to install software directly, as Henri describes. Quite quick to do. The only problem is that I can't

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