Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3.6.1 dictionary installs (.deb) fail & bork dpkg/apt-get

2012-09-04 Thread Tom Davies
any dictionaries during >the installation [DEB and Windows], and then install the version of English, >Spanish, and French ones I prefer.  By the way, there are several French >dictionaries to choose from. >. >On 09/03/2012 06:35 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> All

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how i can rotate print like landscape?

2012-09-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Congrats!!  The thread there was quite interesting.  I'm sure we had this question asked here not so long ago and they found post-script worked better.  I think they didn't find the better way of keeping .ps as the default format though.  I think they used a template method.  It was intere

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 3.6.1 dictionary installs (.deb) fail & bork dpkg/apt-get

2012-09-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) On a Gnu&Linux command-line and i thikn other unix-based ones you can get a quick-help, cheat-sheet that can give hints about what a command does.  It's wise to have a quick look rather than just randomly accepting on-line advice!  For example try ls --help or ls -h Ok, ls does roughl

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Export Issues (Gallery, Template)

2012-09-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Weird.  I have always assumed the gallery contained images.  I dunno where they really are now!  Hopefully webmaster from Kracked Press might be able to help with the fonts issue.  I don't think it's as simple as just installing them in the OS.  I think that is just 1 step in the process

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

2012-09-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) People get confused about the difference between a text-editor and a word-processor.  It's especially confusing because a number of advanced text-editors are able to cleverly interpret the textual information they are given and convert the text into colour-coded output.  However if you c

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cursor shape+color

2012-09-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There are a lot of options in Tools - Options - Appearance but i don't think the cursor itself is in there.  One way to play "spot the cursor" is to press the shift key while moving the cursor around as "selects" characters (or entire lines if up/down is used rather than just to and fro).

Re: [libreoffice-users] file name suggestion

2012-09-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the op was talking about the default name.  Of course the person saving the document can change from the default to something more sensible.  The default used by LO at the moment is very old-school.  Files called things like Doc1, Doc2, Doc3 are even less helpful than picking the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing backgrounds on slides regularly

2012-09-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 It is sometimes faster just to re-write afresh and save in a native OpenDocument Format, in this case .otp (stands for something like "Open Template Presentation") There are other programs that might be better for most things that people use Impress or PowerPoint for but in this case i

Re: [libreoffice-users] bug search and replace in half height window

2012-09-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) In Gedit (just a text-editor so it's not as fancy as Writer) when i do search it flags up all occurences by giving them a yellow background.  The currently selected one has a grey background.  Since i know what i selected i can shrink the document so that i can barely see the tiny words. 

[libreoffice-users] Fw: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.25 Alpha now available

2012-09-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) MariaDB is a database that can be used as an external back-end for Base.  It is a drop-in replacement for MySql so it is really aimed at reasonably large to massive databases = not just little address books of a half-dozen people! Many people probably prefer to stick with MySql because i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Formatting fonts in Impress

2012-09-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I'm never very sure about Impress but the documentation page https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications might be able to help.  In the "Gettting Started Guide" Chapter 3 "Using Styles and Templates" might help.  If you press F11 or Format - "Styles and Formatting" and

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc - message in cell

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I have noticed some people confuse the / marks thinking they are 1's.  Particularly if it's dark, soggy, scribbled hastily, has gained slight imperfections or on a bit of torn paper or something or if they only glance very quickly or without glasses on etc.  Too many ways the / can fail

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

2012-09-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think all these tools require skill and experience.  It's easiest to keep using the tool you have most skills and experience in but at the same time it is a good idea to try to build-up experience with other tools.  If Andreas was working with your data then a database-program would be

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc

2012-09-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) My main reason for replying is because this message went straight to my spam fodler, along with quite a few others today.  Normally nothing from this list goes to my spam folder but every few months i get a day like this.  So, i can't give  useful answer but i guess it would be good to as

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

2012-09-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  Sometimes on this list we bully, cajole or otherwise try to push people into using tools they are not familiar with.  Even if it's a better tool for the task, that doesn't always make it better for the person's work-flow.  There is only one right way of doing things and that's your own.

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

2012-09-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Good back-up processes 'should' exclude anything that has not changed.  That is they 'should' be able to identify which files and folders have changed with a reasonable level of accuracy.  Like syncing process are meant to do.  Grsync is quite nice.  If you are happy on the command-line

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

2012-09-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Do you delete cookies, temp-files, history, cache, desktop.ini, thumbnails and so on too?  It all seems too much effort and too likely to create problems.  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Dan Lewis >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday,

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

2012-09-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahhh, we shorten MS Office to MSO.  It might be only LibreOffice lists and a few other such places that use it that way. Regards from Tom :)  > > From: JAMES MAJESKI >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2012, 4:03 >Subject: [

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

2012-09-14 Thread Tom Davies
OS they had was ubuntu? surley ubuntu does not use a windows registry file for a settings store? On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, at 05:45 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > +1 > Do you delete cookies, temp-files, history, cache, desktop.ini, > thumbnails and so on too?  It all seems too much effort

Re: [libreoffice-users] How do I open a file with a .tsv extension as a .csv file on a Mac OSX (Lion?) using OpenOffice Calc.

2012-09-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's worth getting a book about Macs.  A quick google search gave me a few good looking links to online guidance.  The official LibreOffice guides have a useful page early on that gives the Mac equivalents of the right-click and stuff http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publi

Re: [libreoffice-users] How do I open a file with a .tsv extension as a .csv file on a Mac OSX (Lion?) using OpenOffice Calc.

2012-09-14 Thread Tom Davies
s from Tom :)  >____ > From: Tom Davies >To: Mas ; "users@global.libreoffice.org" > >Sent: Friday, 14 September 2012, 13:06 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How do I open a file with a .tsv extension as >a .csv file on a Mac OSX (Lion?)

Re: [libreoffice-users] How do I open a file with a .tsv extension as a .csv file on a Mac OSX (Lion?) using OpenOffice Calc.

2012-09-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) For this answer i think after successfully opening 1 test-file renamed from tsv to csv and then changing the default from commas to tabs Calc should (hopefully) automatically open tsv's just by double-clicking on the tsv files.  So, Jays answer becomes the set-up process and then normal u

Re: [libreoffice-users] How do I open a file with a .tsv extension as a .csv file on a Mac OSX (Lion?) using OpenOffice Calc.

2012-09-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr, in Gnome i could put an icon on the top taskbar to open an app and then configure the command-line call it makes, for example to force LibreOffice to open as Calc, and then drop files onto that icon.  Is that possible in Mac?  or something even better? Regards from Tom :)  >___

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

2012-09-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Work-flow is much less smooth but it is a better method as it ensures you have an exact copy of what you sent.  Useful in case it needs to be re-sent or if there are disagreements about what was sent or if an update needs to be sent.  Regards from Tom :)  --- On Mon, 17/9/12, anne-ology

[libreoffice-users] What's New in Evolution 3.6

2012-09-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There has been some discussion on the Users List about email clients.  It seems LibreOffice is compatible with quite a few and people might be interested to hear about a new release of one of the larger ones.  Larger and more like a drop-in replacement for MS Outlook.  It's not a new proje

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

2012-09-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The docs team is working on translating a Base handbook from German.  It's seems to be approaching Base from a different angle from the guide Dan is working on.  If you would like to try translating from German to English that would hugely help in at least getting something out there, or '

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

2012-09-20 Thread Tom Davies
bit.  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: J.A. de Vries >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2012, 17:28 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start >renting their office products instead > >On 2012-

[libreoffice-users] Documentation, was re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-09-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You don't need to be experienced with LibreOffice and definitely do NOT have to be a programmer or dev.  I think writing documentation requires a different skill-set.  Ideally some person that is completely new to LibreOffice would be involved in proof-reading or reviewing or something for

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

2012-09-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Regards from Tom :)  > > From: John Clegg >To: Pertti Rönnberg >Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2012, 12:11 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start >renting their office pro

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

2012-09-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 That is brilliant!  I really think we should support Opera and encourage it's use more because they led the legal battle that led to greater freedom and choice of web-browsers in Windows.  If it's not as good as other web-browsers then it's because they dared to get bogged down in a leg

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems with the loading

2012-09-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It might be some weird setting or configuration or an Extension gone wonky.  Renaming your User Profile gets you "back to factory defaults" and tends to fix a lot of weird problems.  By renaming rather than deleting you can copy back parts of the old profile into the new one and perhaps

Re: [libreoffice-users] ZOOM: strange or bug??

2012-09-21 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think that was all the start of the Ubuntu split away from using Gnome? I think 1 big advantage that Unity started with was that it had figured out touch-screen right from the start and had it all built-in.  Gnome were still refusing to start thinking about touch-screen.  So even tho Ubu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with Scoring Bi-nominal Responses

2012-09-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  Don't self referencing equations usually tend towards chaos and have fractal dimensions?  It's a bit beyond the scope of a spreadsheet!  Is there a way of limiting the number of iterations or does Calc just protect it self (and the cpu) from calculations running away towards chaos?  Reg

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Re: What's New in Evolution 3.6

2012-09-23 Thread Tom Davies
wrote: From: NoOp Subject: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Re: What's New in Evolution 3.6 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 23 September, 2012, 22:49 On 09/19/2012 08:45 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) There has been some discussion on the Users List about email > clients.  It s

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

2012-09-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Even though they don 't use advanced features they still tend to feel they do.  There seems to be an inverse correlation between the skill level and knowledge of the user and the amount they feel they use advanced features.  Take Andreas for example.  An extremely sophisticated and skille

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

2012-09-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I was sure Miro was right.  The last MS Eula i read was quite a long time ago and i vaguely remember it having all sorts of shocking things such as writer's not owning work they had done using the software and other stuff that just really shouldn't stand up in court.  Perhaps i got a joke

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: python reading calc

2012-09-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Lol! +1 He does a good job of 1.  Putting people off LO and sending them scurrying back to MSO and others 2.  Giving them technically correct answers Have you seen "House"? I wonder if that's why user-support for most companies is split into various tiers?  2nd and 3rd tier having far le

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

2012-09-24 Thread Tom Davies
y are a moron?).     Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Jay Lozier >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Monday, 24 September 2012, 13:39 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start >renting their office products instead >

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

2012-09-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think there is another category between 1 and 2.  1.3  People that are completely clueless about macros or any programming concepts but try to use some sort of macro-recorder and then blame other people when their macro doesn't work.  Since they haven't anticipated or prepared for anyt

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

2012-09-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This is all just my own opinion and i am not even a member of TDF and not even vaguely aware of their thoughts or opinions except where they annoy me by disagreeing with what i want but ... +1 To make people buy it MS have to do everything they can to ensure that everyone thinks they MU

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

2012-09-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I like the modular approach rather than the "One size fits all".  I especially like that you can choose different elements to make-up the whole of what you need from an Office Suite.  As Andreas and NoOp pointed-out many office users have no need for an emailing system at all so we reall

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

2012-09-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  MS Office is only released about once every 3 years or thereabouts, sometimes every 4 years.  LibreOffice typically has 2 new branches per year.  There might be an argument for some sort of big generic book that is very vague and even so quickly becomes out-dated but i think the documen

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

2012-09-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Oops.  I'm not easily confused but isn't this confusing?  E, what was the question again?  I mean the unanswered one not the one you solved without our 'help' Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Agustin Lobo >To: users >Sent: Tuesday, 25 September 201

+1 Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-09-25 Thread Tom Davies
HI :) +1 It might be nice to have an Extension that allows people to import LaTeX or have a program that can export a LaTeX document to Odf but it's not something that many people would use.  I doubt it would even be usefully possible.  A lot of the advantage of the format would be lost when con

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - bar chart - does not list order properly for cell values

2012-09-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It would be more normal to have the date along the x-axis, along the bottom.  The amount of money should go up the y-axis.  Otherwise, as you point-out, the graph looks weird.  You could try reverse-date order? Regards from Tom :)  --- On Wed, 26/9/12, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: Fr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - bar chart - does not list order properly for cell values

2012-09-26 Thread Tom Davies
e to show at least the past 3 or 4 years on the chart. > >Here is a partial screen clip of the printed page. >http://lungstrom.com/royalty-screen.jpg >I will get rid of the image in a few days. > >On 09/26/2012 08:37 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> It would be more norm

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

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  My favourite page for documentation is http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications it contains links to 3rd party documentation, video tutorials and how-tos, old versions of documentation and best of all it has the pre-release versions for people to have a quick read th

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

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) On the contrary. MS do not fix their problems quickly at all.  Even known malware threats remain for months and even years.  Their strategy is to blame the users.  A typical one being to tell users they shouldn't be using macros because of the likelihood of getting an infected or corrupted

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Opening Files in Writer

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Mounting it at boot relies on the Ntfs partition not stuffing-up.  If it stuffs up then the boot-up gets quite grumbly and unhappy, particularly fstab.  It's better to use your file-browser to bookmark certain folders on the Ntfs and then try those bookmarks after boot-up is over and the m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Opening Files in Writer

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's fairly unlikely that you would accidentally save or use things from a "Windows drive" (really an Ntfs partition on a drive but Windows calls partitions "drives" in order to dumb things down so that even all us stupid users can understand.  They aren't being patronising at all.  It's j

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

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ages ago one of the devs or someone was asking if i could create some more layouts or something but i don't have skills in that area.  Is it possible to join the design-team and make a few more?  Are there Extensions that have extra layouts?  Doesn't OpenOffice have some more? Apols and re

Re: [libreoffice-users] bug reporting problem

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You sound like a more sophisticated user so the dumbed-down bug-reporting system on the official site is probably just aggravating.  try the wiki-page for better guidance https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Bug_Report (including how to look-up bugs you might have posted by either route) Reg

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Impress - Blink animation doesn't work

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry, no idea.  Have you tried renaming your User Profile? (Seems to fix a lot of random weirdness).  Seems to work fine for me in 3.5.4 on Gnu&Linux (specifically Ubuntu 12.04)  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Gordon Burgess-Parker >To: Libre Office

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: formatting lost in referenced calc fields

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Surely just either Edit - Paste Special or Ctrl Shift and v (both get same dialogue box).  Then choose "Paste formatted text (Rtf)", it's the 2nd option.  We usually use that route to paste unformatted so i've not tried the formatted option.  I'm a huge fan of Rtf but it's just a descri

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

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Does Caldev sync to Google?  If so then it's a winner imo.  This all seems a little off-topic since LO doesn't have a calendar but since calendars are included in competitors equivalent and because calendars are often quite useful to people working with office packages it would be good to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Loosing chart on exporting ods to xls

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) No, and i doubt it's going to be easy to ask for help from the MS world.  There might be a few that know how to edit the Xml files inside the XlsX container but trying to get those people to help or even finding them could prove to be difficult! Can you not just export as Pdfs?  They woul

Re: [libreoffice-users] ZOOM: strange or bug??

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Are you saying that you can use some gestures on LO?!!?  I didn't think we had got that far yet!  There are lists for Italian and other languages that might be better places to get help from Regards from Tom :)  > > From: "manuel_songo...@yahoo.it"

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - bar chart - does not list order properly for cell values

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
te on the left and the newest on the right >[or old on top].  But if I use a Column Chart, the "system" seems to >"insist" that the newest date [in a text format] be listed first [left >or top] and not last which is not the order of the column of data. > > >

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

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
gs or even just one or two things until you get more familiar with the difference.  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Pertti Rönnberg >To: Tom Davies >Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" >Sent: Thursday, 27 September 2012, 18:27 >Subject: Re: [libre

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can Calc read/import data from Google Docs?

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ok, this is probably not what you are looking for but just to clear the idea out of the way ... Can you just open the google-docs spreadsheet and save it onto your computer?  Then just double-clicking on it should open it in Calc.  Google-docs uses the same native format as LO but both ca

Re: [libreoffice-users] bug reporting problem

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
; From: rost52 >To: Tom Davies >Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" >Sent: Thursday, 27 September 2012, 14:26 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] bug reporting problem > >Thanks for both hints.I used first the bugzilla and found thereafter the bug >reporting >   

Re: [libreoffice-users] bug reporting problem

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
m Tom :) > > From: rost52 >To: Tom Davies >Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" >Sent: Thursday, 27 September 2012, 14:26 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] bug reporting problem > > >Thanks for both hints. > >I used first the bugzilla and found thereafter the b

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

2012-09-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) To make a feature request just post as a bug-report https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Bug_Report BUT one of the drop-downs has an option "Feature request" or "wish-list" to make it clear exactly what it is. Also it's possible for a non-Dan to join the design team and work on this sort of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Impress - Blink animation doesn't work

2012-09-28 Thread Tom Davies
rs] Re: Impress - Blink animation doesn't work > >Hi, I observe the same bug. > >Settings >Entry: Appear on click >Emphasis: Blink after previous 3 times > >Result >All works but only 1 blink independed of the number of blinks set > >LO 3.5.6.2  XP SP3 > >H

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.n crashes on copy and paste

2012-09-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) In Win7 using LO 3.5.6 there seemed to be no problems Ubuntu 12.04 using LO 3.5.4 also seemed fine. Xp (Sp3 and fully updated as far as MS stuff goes) using 3.5.6 had trouble with the image and just showed an empty box with the words "broken link" (or something like that) inside the box a

[libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-09-29 Thread Tom Davies
others having problems already from the very beginning, with installing. > >For me -- I represent the ordinary non-LibO-expert user -- it is obvious why not only companies rely on Windows/MSO. >I can not see that this is anything to argue about: LibO must be easy-t

[libreoffice-users] Can't get Libra office working with Java access bridge and java7.

2012-09-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The question did get to the list originally but the list was unusually quiet at the time after an unusually busy period during the paralympics Hopefully someone here can remember how to fix the java-bridge or hopefully this wiki-page might help https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/Java

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Many apols for my somewhat negative posts! Apols and regards from Tom :)  --- On Mon, 1/10/12, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: Hi, you all clever guys, I don't think this list is meant for naming or humiliating any others -- not people,  nor programs, nor anything -- that behavior rather w

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

2012-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think that renting could result in better software because it eliminates the excuse that major bugs are only fixed in the newer release.  At the moment MS can claim that it's the users fault if they suffer a bug because they should buy the new release.  While they probably still will do

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO crashes IE?

2012-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I don't find that at all.  I do find that it can sometimes be difficult to get the right balance for settings in Tools - Options - Memory Too much and you get the effect you are talking about but the default is often t low and can't handle bloated documents with massively heavy picture

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's sometimes difficult to appreciate the work that others are doing especially if it's in a very different area and especially if you do tons of work yourself.  Dan does tons of very heavy lifting that hardly ever gets appreciated.  Everyone's effort, however little, should be appreciate

Re: [libreoffice-users] GUI error in tablet mode

2012-10-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry no-obne has replied to you so far!  It sounds like a bug.  So, it would be great is you could post a bug-report about it.  Hopefully this link will help https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport They probably wont be able to fix it quickly and it may well take several months befo

Re: [libreoffice-users] GUI error in tablet mode

2012-10-03 Thread Tom Davies
ght in might be tempting but might not end up being faster at all.  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Eduardo Santos Anton Sama >To: Tom Davies >Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" >Sent: Wednesday, 3 October 2012, 13:41 >Subj

Re: [libreoffice-users] GUI error in tablet mode

2012-10-03 Thread Tom Davies
my desktop or laptops.  I do not know how people would do all >>> their school work with only a tablet, even if it is a 10" Apple version.  I >>> also need my 19 or 23 inch monitor to get my work done "easily" on my >>> desktop. >>> >>> &

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

2012-10-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yeh, people are weird sometimes.  I'm sure some people would have peaceful pro-war protests or fight for peace given half a chance.  One client group claimed they didn't know how to use "Save As ..." so i sent them screen-shots and then the month after i even visited them to show them by

Renting MS Office (next release), was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

2012-10-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I suspect a good place to start might be somewhere like http://www.microsoft.com but it might still only be written for a certain web-browser and might render badly on yours (or even block you).  I think they sorted it out now but for ages it just wouldn't work. Regards from Tom :) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] calc cells spacing to contents not working as it should

2012-10-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I would post it as a bug-report but make it clear that it's the xls format that is affected.  Actually the screen-shots show it's xls if you look up at the title-bar in the screen-shots.  The taskbar at the bottom shows it's running on Xp.  It would be interesting to know if you get the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Import XML files?

2012-10-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes, but LO develops so fast that even a version just a couple of months old is 'ancient'.  I think it would be nice to see an LTS that has all security and bug-fixes back-ported to it so that people could stick to one version for a year or more rather than having to re-install every mon

Re: [libreoffice-users] documentation for LO base

2012-10-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Some 3rd party guides can be found listed on the LO Publications page https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#Base but i agree with Dan that the Getting Started chapter about Base, the first 2 chapters of the official guide https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documenta

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: documentation for LO base

2012-10-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks :)  I just added it to the list in the Publications page https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#Base Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Andreas Säger >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2012, 13:09 >S

Re: [libreoffice-users] documentation for LO base

2012-10-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) i think the point was that if more people use a thing then more people care about how well it works.  If we start with the premise that only a fraction of people that use a thing are likely to be involved with fixing it (or even just reporting a problem) then it helps to have more people

Re: [libreoffice-users] Opening hybrid pdf in LO 3.6.0.2 results in gibberish

2012-10-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Did work for me on Win Xp Sp3, LO 3.5.4 Not working on Ubuntu 12.04, LO 3.5.4 = asks for Utf encoding and defaults to 8 and guesses at font = Times New Roman.  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: John Clegg >To: Gordon Burgess-Parker >Cc: Libre Office Us

Re: [libreoffice-users] loadComponentfromUrl

2012-10-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hopefully someone more experienced will give a decent answer but until then it might be worth acquiring Andrew Pitonyak's Macro Guide https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#Programmers There are a few chapters and things in official documentation (and therefore free

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: ZOOM: strange or bug??

2012-10-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Did this ever get solved?  It took me so long to work out what the problem was that i didn't even notice whether a decent answer solved it in the end! Apols and regards from Tom :)  > > From: "manuel_songo...@yahoo.it" >To: "users@global.libreoffice.or

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

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I have a similar(ish) issue with files stored on a network share and then read by a mix of Ubuntu and Windows machines.  Each time one OS reads it the other can only open read-only.  However that forces us to use a simple versioning system and means we always have lots of back-ups.  So, it

Re: [libreoffice-users] name of pdf export

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Do you use File - "Export to Pdf" or are you using "Print to file" and then choosing the Pdf format? The "File" route seems to automatically put the right file-name in just as you want but i think the printing route might not.  I've never needed the printing route although i think it's so

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Honestly, read "The Emperor’s New Clothes".  Also there was a vote to determine the most influential and important music of the 20th Century and "The Spice Girls" got in at number 1.  Does that really mean they really were the most influential?  Is there any validity in disagreeing with

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Have a nice weekend too :) and to everyone else out there too Many regards from Tom :) > > From: Pertti Rönnberg >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Friday, 5 October 2012, 18:28 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems > >Hi Wolfgang, >Most c

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

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If only you could be strict with those people and demand 1.  a Pdf so you can see how it's meant to look 2.  Images as separate files in image formats 3.  The article in .doc format For me that would be just about perfect.  Even with .docs the formatting some people fall into is fairly ins

Re: [libreoffice-users] Opening hybrid pdf in LO 3.6.0.2 results in gibberish

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Davies
using them and getting a reputation as being a "difficult person".  LibreOffice seems to be about the only Office Suite that can write uncompressed Pdfs.  This hybrid thing rocks!! Regards from Tom :)  > > From: M Henri Day >To: Tom

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Just thought people might like a few equations to see what Wolfgang is driving at " As the old (is it really a joke) goes... >From http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/humor/equation.html Knowledge is Power Time is Money and as every engineer knows, Power is Work over Time. So, substituting

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

2012-10-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is \t reserved for something in LO or in your OS?  Can you replace $ with ?  If that works can you replace with \t?  Also can you try doing those replacements in a normal text-editor to try to pin it down to either the OS or LO?  Regards from Tom :)  --- On Sat, 6/10/12, Cor

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks :)  That restores my faith in humanity a little :) Thanks and regards from Tom :)  --- On Sun, 7/10/12, Wolfgang Keller wrote: From: Wolfgang Keller Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 7 October, 2012, 20:58 > Since the ave

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS problems

2012-10-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There are no quick answers and there are no "one size fits all" answers either.  The only way LO will ever be an easy sell is if everyone else is already using it.  In IT diversity and "freedom of choice" is generally seen as a bad thing.  It's much easier just to go along with whatever

Base list, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Re: Update SQL does nothing using "Run SQL directly" button

2012-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) All the threads about Base are buried in the archives: scattered and hidden, incoherent amongst hundreds of threads about things that are nothing to do with Base.  If there was a Base List then some of those threads might have been referenced on it.  There isn't.  So any thread about Bas

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

2012-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Perhaps Viral Orpe is not properly subscribed to the list?  Perhaps he/she used a different email account that is supposed to filter mails through to the main one he/she uses?  When you subscribe to these lists there are a few options you can choose.  One is for the list to cleverly NOT

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] bug 50926

2012-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  I'm not sure how to forwards this to the devs list.  There has been some talk of getting accessibility bugs marked out to differentiate them from others and perhaps raise the priority on them to hopefully get them fixed faster.  Thanks to IBM's gift of their Lotus Symphony code to Apa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base list, was: Fw: Re: Update SQL does nothing using "Run SQL directly" button

2012-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Säger Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base list, was: Fw: Re: Update SQL does nothing using "Run SQL directly" button To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Monday, 8 October, 2012, 12:55 Am 08.10.2012 12:01, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > All the threads about Base are buried in the ar

Re: [libreoffice-users] attempting to find an answer and instead ...

2012-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Speculation can provide a lot of amusement.  I like Anne-ology's explanation.  The real answer is quite good too.  So, where did "boot-up" come from?  Wasn't that soem engineering term to do with subs too? Regards from Tom :)   --- On Fri, 5/10/12, Felmon Davis wrote: From: Felmon Davi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: calc cells spacing to contents not working as it should

2012-10-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) We try to play nicely with non-native formats because they are still so dominant.  So it is worth posting bug-report.  Finding that it is only xls that is affected and not ods may help the devs pin-point the problem which usually makes it easier to solve.  So, good work :) Many thanks an

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