Re: [libreoffice-users] Reading from a USB device.

2017-08-28 Thread fudmier
seems to me is you were using linux this should be almost automatic /dev/device..< 18.1 Device Files UNIX has a beautifully consistent method of allowing programs to access hardware. Under UNIX, every piece of hardware is a file. To demonstrate this novelty, try viewing the file

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to type vertically under Linux

2017-12-14 Thread fudmier
tweet_button.5069e7f3e4e64c1f4fb5d33d0b653ff6.en i have files showing up which have no directory on ubuntu 16.04 in lwhen I open libre office.. another is called like.php does any know how to find where these are coming from and how to get them off my machine and out of libre office.  list of

[libreoffice-users] problem spell check dictionaries c/n/b installed.. LO

2017-10-30 Thread fudmier
ubuntu 16.04  amd 64 LTS Haswell Chip Set Version: 5.1.6.2  Build ID: 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial2 CPU Threads: 2; OS Version: Linux 4.4; UI Render: default; Locale: en-CA (en_CA.UTF-8); Calc: group dictionaries will not attach to the spell checker message in writer.  Spell checker c/n be

Re: [libreoffice-users] installed disc usage for LO

2018-01-02 Thread fudmier
i remember renting a ibm 360 /195 system from a corporation. at night to do payroll RPG.. we needed more disk drive space.  it had 250k drive and we needed a 500k drive the technician came, opened the drive, removed the metal piece that gave access to the other 250k already on the drive..

[libreoffice-users] how to get copy past to copy table data in pdf to calc column data:

2018-03-29 Thread fudmier
i copy from a pdf text to calc and writer, but neither separated the numbers into column 1 and the column 2 information to another column when I pasted the copy  to writer this is what I got. it did not separate the stuff on either side of the : into two separate adjacent columns. ( I tried

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: insert unicode char in writer

2018-10-03 Thread fudmier
It is good that LO hybrid pdf is not and can be ever be a pdf editor.. If we wanted the real  thing spyware on our machines we would use it instead of LO.. On 2018-10-03 08:16 AM, V Stuart Foote wrote: Brian Barker wrote ... If your characters are sufficiently unusual, it is just possible

[libreoffice-users] how do i in calc

2018-10-04 Thread fudmier
I am trying to make a variable of the column or row in in other words I have a formula   if(tab4.a6>0, tab4.a6,"") this formula is entered into cell g12 in tab3 ( a tab different from tab 4) now it turns out that tab4 has a long list of entries which I want, but each one is in the same

Re: [libreoffice-users] corrupt letter on display

2018-11-23 Thread fudmier
as time passes,  my libre office writer and calc  sheets continue to get slower and slower and slower and now they are crashing regularly  locking up my system, which is hard to do, and switching back and forth as each commend is given in some kind of way that blacks out my screen for minutes

[libreoffice-users] I have been using open office, libre office and open everything since 1985

2019-01-11 Thread fudmier
but I can tell you what has happened to libre office over the past two years has turned me off.. nothing about it is stable.. it stinks. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer into Calc

2019-03-22 Thread fudmier
this is a giant problem for me.. the bastardized way in which calc has been amended (makes each cells a text box or whatever has corrupted my entire library of saved articles.. I have spent many years defending open source, but this change was hit that forced me to move to paid for tools that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Just an opinion

2020-02-24 Thread fudmier
  I agree, with that analysis.. the entire thing of tracking into open source pay for use software is bad,, it allows the pay for use people to force everyone to buy there stuff,even thought it is mostly useless. usually that happens because the pay for use software (PFU software people lobby

Re: [libreoffice-users] Hot keys for LO programs

2020-01-06 Thread fudmier
i agree that would be very useful. also if the restart list could be side tracked so that have option to opne the items in the resart list or just open one of the LO functions writer, calc etc separately that would be nice.. do it linux .. On 2020-01-05 10:03 AM, Ken Springer wrote:

[libreoffice-users] question

2020-07-27 Thread fudmier
On my linux 16.04 box .. each time i perform any function that involves switching between tabs, or between certain activities within the same A tab my computer goes into Oh shit mode.. it disables my keyboard activity, and the disk goes to spinning,, the background of the spreadsheet goes into

[libreoffice-users] Re: question

2020-07-27 Thread fudmier
On 2020-07-27 11:39 a.m., fudmier wrote: On my linux 16.04 box .. each time i perform any function that involves switching between tabs, or between certain activities within the same A tab my computer goes into Oh shit mode.. it disables my keyboard activity, and the disk goes to spinning

Re: [libreoffice-users] Getting changes more visible from a Google Doc

2020-11-16 Thread fudmier
yes, i am getting many attempts to change  libre office on my various Ubuntu desktops.. the intruders are very insistent and refuse to stand down even when i block their entry and kill their processes i have written script to detect their entry.. but they keep changing things. Underneath the