Re: [libreoffice-users] very slow download of LO 5.3.1

2017-03-19 Thread Charles Marcus
You're hitting a slow/problematic mirror, happens sometimes... On March 19, 2017 7:17:11 AM EDT, mboleslav wrote: >Since Friday evening I experience a problem with downloading LO 5.3.1. >The >download indicator shows 2-3 hours, however having downloaded previous >versions

Re: [libreoffice-users] Update and extension grizzles and aggravation

2011-04-28 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-04-28 1:40 AM, Cliff Scott wrote: Charles Marcus wrote on Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:17:17 -0400 Two? I have only ever had to deselect all of the other dictionaries, the language itself is usually only defaulted to install English. Or is there another one I've been missing that accounts

Re: [libreoffice-users] Update and extension grizzles and aggravation

2011-04-26 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-04-25 10:07 PM, Cliff Scott wrote: You can solve your own problem by deselecting them during installation. But you also have to choose 'Custom Install' first to be able to deselect them. They only install because they are selected by default, which IMHO should not be done. +1000

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: Unsubscribe

2011-04-21 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-04-20 11:01 PM, Len Philpot wrote: So is there any other way other than the (non-functional) email method to unsub from this list? It works fine, as long as you 1. know how to read, 2. understand that you may have to check your spam folder for the returned instructions, especially

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libreoffice

2011-04-19 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-04-19 4:24 PM, Ken Springer wrote: Just speculation here, but I wonder if 64 bit Windows could be part of the problems. 32 bit software is supposed to run under 64 bit, but we are talking about Windows. LibO 3.3.2 installs fine on 64 bit Win7 Pro (at least on the 6+ PCs I've

Re: [libreoffice-users] Convert formulae to actual

2011-03-21 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-21 4:14 PM, James Wilde wrote: Sorry, Jean-Francois. There is no Copy Special. Only Paste Special. And Paste Special does not have a Formula option. sure it does, I use it all the time... -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-users] UNSUBSCRIBE

2011-03-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-12 3:59 PM, Greg Madden wrote: I have been trying to unsubscribe for a quite a while. The spam filters at the isp level were catching the confirm email. I have the option to review the spam via a web interface, I just never have done so. Found a filtered message from an old friend

Re: [libreoffice-users] UNSUBSCRIBE

2011-03-12 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-12 1:21 PM, James Wilde wrote: A thought suddenly strikes me in connection with this problem. The person in question uses gmail, and gmail is renowned for not sending copies of your own mails to mail lists. I wonder if the confirmation mails are not being sent to the users? Two

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: message from Marc Grober

2011-03-11 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-11 4:34 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: Send a mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org for all instructions (see the footer of this mail). See my last email for how/why this footer is lacking... -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default character formatting not behaving as it did in OOo?

2011-03-02 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-03-01 5:22 PM, missinglens wrote: LibreOffice is behaving in an unexpected manner with respect to default character formatting. To replicate, first do the following in OpenOffice.org: 1. Start a new document. 2. Type a few words and highlight one of the middle words. 3. Apply a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Accessing the mailing list

2011-02-28 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-26 10:34 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: Evolution most likely ships with your Linux distribution of choice. To get your latest supported version, you will want to check with your distribution supplier. For Windows, here's the first hit in Google: http://www.dipconsultants.com/evolution/

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't subscibe to the list

2011-02-24 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-23 2:16 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 2/23/2011 11:11 AM, NoOp wrote: On 02/23/2011 03:39 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2011-02-23 3:03 AM, James Wilde wrote: Not so. I moderated Mr Sutton's post. Is there not a way for moderators to add some kind of 'moderated post' header

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Update from 3.3.1-rc-2 to 3.3.1

2011-02-24 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-23 2:26 PM, Luuk wrote: The latest version (on Windows) shows: LibreOffice 3.3.1 OOO330m19 (Build:8) tag libreoffice-3.3.1.2 Thanks, but what I would like is to see this precise info *on* *the* *download* *page*. -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Update from 3.3.1-rc-2 to 3.3.1

2011-02-23 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-23 11:59 AM, Luuk wrote: On 23-02-11 17:42, Manfred J. Krause wrote: 2011/2/23 Mieszko Kaczmarczyk wrote: I have updated but in window LO-info is still the same: 3.3.1.2 / build 8 Is this OK? Yes. This release is bit-for-bit identical to the 3.3.1 Release Candidate 2, so you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Accessing the mailing list

2011-02-22 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-22 11:47 AM, Ken Springer wrote: There is also an option to place replies to messages in the folders of the message being replied to. That will accomplish what I and Marc want to be done automatically *assuming* you have an incoming filter to put the message in a designated

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't subscibe to the list

2011-02-22 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/22/2011 11:44 AM, Paolo wrote: On 22/02/11 15:34, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I would like to subscribe to the list, but can't manage after several attempts writing to users+subscr...@libreoffice.org as specified here: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/ The problem I had is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail List Etiquette

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-17 6:55 PM, Simon Cropper wrote: 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 this list I noted in my first

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail List Etiquette

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-18 3:19 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Obviously this list feels it more important to make rules to make it more difficult for first time users, to ask them to post in a way that is completely opposite to what they use everywhere else with everyone else they might communicate with in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Mail List Etiquette

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-18 4:34 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Ahah, whereas i think this list should instead be the most welcoming and familiar making people feel at home and comfortable. Whose whom? Comfortable by what definition? Here again your arrogance shows through - in your mind, *your* home and *your*

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-18 11:41 AM, ashl...@arcet.com wrote: We have LO installed on an application server, Is this on Terminal Server? -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-18 12:48 PM, philan...@comcast.net wrote: Please take me off your lists. I have a better idea... why don't YOU stop SPAMMING THE LIST with your stupidity? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive:

Re: [libreoffice-users] First impressions of LibreOffice 3.3.1 RC1 (Debian amd64 squeeze):

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-16 5:12 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: 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: ICON is beautiful,I agree! I completely and totally disagree, at least for Windows XP... 1. The Quickstarter

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-16 6:29 PM, NoOp wrote: Bottom posting (with appropriate snipping/intersperse etc) would be my choice. Aka 'in-line' posting... -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Missing MSVCR90.dll

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-16 7:45 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Cliff Scott ke6...@qsl.net wrote: ** Reply to message from Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk on Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:28:03 + (GMT) Really? You had to repost the entire conversation, which is already preserved

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: CALC -- Repeating a Table Header on a New Page

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Marcus
Hi Tom, First of all, thank you very much for trying to abide by the list guidelines wrt inline-posting... and yes, I'm top-posting this for a reason - sometimes top-posting is ok... ;) One thing you are forgetting, which is now making your replies very painful to discern/read, is to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Extensions

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-17 5:23 AM, James Wilde wrote: Andy Brown wrote: The pad lock just shows that the extensions are installed for all user and can not be removed by the user, requires system admin. I'm running on a Mac, OSX 10.6.6 and v.3.3.0. As far as I know I _am_ the system admin, but I can't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Extensions

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-17 7:38 AM, James Wilde wrote: On Feb 17, 2011, at 13:06 , Charles Marcus wrote: To delete these extension, you need to be root/admin, and delete them manually through the filesystem... For example, in Windows XP, the path is: C:\Program Files\LibreOffice 3\share\extensions

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: CALC -- Repeating a Table Header on a New Page

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-17 7:31 AM, Luuk wrote: On 17-02-11 13:01, Charles Marcus wrote: Also, you are apparently using the Yahoo Webmail client, which doesn't seem to use the standard quote character '' for showing quotes in plain text emails... this is too bad, because it makes inline-posting extremely

Re: [libreoffice-users] default setup

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Marcus
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 permission problems, but it was painstaking, and honestly the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Runtime error in Libre Office!

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-17 10:59 AM, Luuk wrote: Please do this in web-mail of yahoo (mail.yahoo.com) Under Option/More Options/General put a mark before Quote the text of the original message As I said, and should be obvious from his replies, he *is* quoting the text of the original message... the

Re: [libreoffice-users] quoting again [was: Re: Runtime error in Libre Office!]

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-17 11:34 AM, Luuk wrote: On 17-02-11 17:28, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2011-02-17 10:59 AM, Luuk wrote: Please do this in web-mail of yahoo (mail.yahoo.com) Under Option/More Options/General put a mark before Quote the text of the original message As I said, and should be obvious

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: CALC -- Repeating a Table Header on a New Page

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-17 1:43 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Ahah, at last. Thanks for helping rather than blaming. This type of answer is one of the perfect ways of handling the problem. It is the type of thing that make LO great. Unfortunately it shows that bottom posting involves more work than most

Re: [libreoffice-users] First impressions of LibreOffice 3.3.1 RC1 (Debian amd64 squeeze):

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-17 1:46 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: 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. And it's a lot harder to tell the regular

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-17 2:34 PM, T. R. Valentine wrote: Hasn't this issue been beaten to death ... and then some? I was about to agree, but I just saw a little twitch in one of the hind legs... hopefully my last whack will take care of it... :) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: FEATURE REQUEST: CALC -- Repeating a Table Header on a New Page

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-17 2:25 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote: Boo hoo (sobs? :-)! SOB... 'Son of a ...'... ;) -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-17 3:12 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2011/02/17 1:34 PM Charles Marcus wrote: I'm sure Tom would welcome details, as I wasn't able to find a way to enable standard quote attributions or the use of the standard '' quote character... so, 'simple'...? Not quite... Not quite as simple

Re: [libreoffice-users] First impressions of LibreOffice 3.3.1 RC1 (Debian amd64 squeeze):

2011-02-16 Thread Charles Marcus
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 version and the update was automatic. All the extensions have been preserved and an icon LibreOffice was installed

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open pps as ppt

2011-02-16 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-14 11:33 AM, plino wrote: There is indeed a bug (or at least a different behaviour from MS Office and OOo) with .pps files If a user double clicks or opens with a pps file with MS Powerpoint or LO Impress it is supposed to autostart the presentation. However if you open

Re: [libreoffice-users] top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-16 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-15 12:38 PM, Tom Davies wrote: The question is how much we want to alienate first-time users and office users? Who is more important to please, 'geeks' or potential new users? You don't have to alienate them... just some gentle prodding in the beginning is enough for most people,

Re: [libreoffice-users] top- or bottom- quoting

2011-02-16 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-16 8:51 AM, TVCSF Chair wrote: I could not agree more. I have been using OOo and Thunderbird for several years now and try to get the people I work around to use free rather than MS software. It is a really hard uphill struggle. But I would say that I always have my comments at

Re: [libreoffice-users] First impressions of LibreOffice 3.3.1 RC1 (Debian amd64 squeeze):

2011-02-16 Thread Charles Marcus
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 version and the update was automatic. All the extensions have been

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open pps as ppt

2011-02-12 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-12 5:38 AM, Mihai Dobrescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: There is a list of available programs to choose from when you 'right-click' 'open with'... in that list, there are, among others: ... LibreOffice 3.3 LibreOffice Impress ... Click

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open pps as ppt

2011-02-12 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-12 1:10 PM, Mihai Dobrescu wrote: It must be possible to open a pps in edit mode. Without renaming it. I've already explained to you, it is... apparently you've hit a bug, now we just need others with Win7 to confirm it.. -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe instructions:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open pps as ppt

2011-02-12 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-12 2:09 PM, Luuk wrote: On 12-02-11 19:56, Charles Marcus wrote: Well... if you really did try browsing to it per Luuk's instructions, and it still played it then closed, then I'd call that a bug, but it must only be a Windows7 or Win7 64 bot bug, because it works fine for me on XP

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open pps as ppt

2011-02-11 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-11 2:44 AM, Mihai Dobrescu wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: I just tested, and if I right-click, 'Open with...', then choose 'LibreOffice 3.3' - NOT 'LibreOffice Impress' - it just opens it for editing... Sorry, I don't understand the 'LibreOffice 3.3

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Portable Edition Will Not Install

2011-02-11 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-11 2:48 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Can you open your task-manager? It should show what processes are running. I think it is Ctrl Alt Del although that is likely to reboot the machine. Tip: CTRL-SHIFT-ESC goes straight to Task Manager in all windows version... -- Best

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open pps as ppt

2011-02-10 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-02-10 10:14 AM, David Griffiths wrote: I already suggested this a while ago to Mihai, but he does not want to change the extension. Sorry, I missed that... I just tested, and if I right-click, 'Open with...', then choose 'LibreOffice 3.3' - NOT 'LibreOffice Impress' - it just opens it

Re: [OT]F6[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2011-02-05 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/4/2011 7:15 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: No I wouldn't. I've heard them all, including Why shouldn't I shut down the computer by just pushing the on-off button?. I've been shutting down my PC like that ever since I can remember, so whats your point?. One more thing. Learn not to over

Re: [libreoffice-users] And yet another .pps that Impress doesn't do right

2011-01-24 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-01-23 7:18 AM, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Le 21/01/2011 16:18, Charles Marcus a écrit : [...] LibO needs a *very simple* way to submit problem documents - a way without having to register with a site or learn how to submit a bug. There would be volunteers who would then verify

Re: [libreoffice-users] Having trouble installing Libre Office in Ubuntu

2011-01-20 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-01-19 7:14 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: I seriously hook the n00bs up with Debian/XFCE edition, all the time, and they get off and running with no problem, and stay without problems. (although that KDE bloat probably looks even more like their favorite bloated proprietary monster, these

[libreoffice-users] Possible bug: Track Changes not working with Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac?

2011-01-18 Thread Charles Marcus
Can anyone else confirm this before I go open a bug? To test... enable recording of changes on a document in .doc format, make some changes, send them to a Mac with Office 2008, and see if you can see the changes... my friend claims he absolutely cannot see any changes, but I don't have another

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'Fille-down' function in Writer Tables?

2010-12-21 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-12-20 9:48 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com On 12/20/2010 2:47 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: I know there is a way to do this, because I found it a long time ago, but for the life of me can't figure it out now... How do I define a formula in a cell in a Writer Table

[libreoffice-users] 'Fille-down' function in Writer Tables?

2010-12-20 Thread Charles Marcus
Hi, I know there is a way to do this, because I found it a long time ago, but for the life of me can't figure it out now... How do I define a formula in a cell in a Writer Table, then fill that formula down? Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Bete 3.3: Strange wiggly lines when viewing a file.

2010-11-30 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-11-30 4:10 AM, Sigrid Carrera wrote: 2010/11/29 Maurice Batey maur...@bcs.org.uk Having just installed LibreOffice 3.3 Beta and trying Writer, all seems fine at first, except that tabbed space at the start of lines has been filled in with a wiggly line. Also, a couple of phrases have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Survey: Usage of LibreOffice components

2010-11-30 Thread Charles Marcus
Am 30.11.2010 09:47, schrieb Arda Tunccekic: Maybe Quickstarter was usefull with the slow loading StarOffice suite, but OO and LO already load up pretty quick. And no one uses it here as I see. I don't use it too. I think it would be switched off by default or removed.. Disagree... makes a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug 31716 - [UI]: Context menu waits several seconds before appearing

2010-11-23 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-11-22 1:21 AM, Ron Faile wrote: I also had this problem, very slow to get a right-click menu in Writer. After deleting most of the extensions installed by default one by one, I came to presenter-screen. I deleted the extension and restarted LibO and everything works great. The

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: libreoffice 3 beta 2

2010-11-21 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-11-21 5:09 PM, Manfred J. Krause wrote: You might have a look at → OOo Community Forum - [Solved] Removing Extensions http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47t=35771start=0 Yup, figured it out, thanks whew... -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe