Re: [libreoffice-users] How to move a Frame anchored to Page

2024-09-11 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Regina, On 2024-09-10 15:13, Regina Henschel wrote: John Kaufmann schrieb am 10.09.2024 um 17:41: On 2024-09-10 06:26, Regina Henschel wrote: John Kaufmann schrieb am 10.09.2024 um 08:28: There are two ways to think about a Frame anchored to Page: 1) That its position is anchored relative

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to move a Frame anchored to Page

2024-09-10 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Regina, On 2024-09-10 06:26, Regina Henschel wrote: John Kaufmann schrieb am 10.09.2024 um 08:28: There are two ways to think about a Frame anchored to Page: 1) That its position is anchored relative to position on a page (for example, Top Center), any page. 2) That its position is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can Writer's formatting marks distinguish between Paragraph Break and Page Break?

2024-09-10 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Gabriele, On 2024-09-10 05:48, Gabriele Ponzo wrote: Il giorno mar 10 set 2024 alle ore 10:57 Gabriele Bertolucci ha scritto: ... ... graphically they are distinguished as the § breaks have the pilcrow sign ¶, while pages' breaks are visible (in Normal view mode) between the pages by means of

[libreoffice-users] Can Writer's formatting marks distinguish between Paragraph Break and Page Break?

2024-09-10 Thread John Kaufmann
Writer's formatting marks distinguish between Paragraph Break (end of Paragraph) and Line Break (End-of-Line(EOL), which does not break the Paragraph). However, Writer does not seem to distinguish between Paragraph Break and Page Break - correct? Is that by design? If so, what is the reasoning?

[libreoffice-users] How to move a Frame anchored to Page

2024-09-09 Thread John Kaufmann
There are two ways to think about a Frame anchored to Page:i 1) That its position is anchored relative to position on a page (for example, Top Center), any page. 2) That its position is anchored to a /particular/ page (but may be shifted on that page). Writer seems to adopt the second sense, co

Re: [libreoffice-users] Software Tickler

2024-08-06 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2024-08-06 20:59, charles meyer wrote: ... Have you discovered any kinds of “ticklers” which would sound an alarm on your PC when you set a date to be alerted for something? ... Is there any way in Libre Calc, Writer, gmail – any program which will perform this function? Do you have a phon

Re: [libreoffice-users] Frames vs text frames vs text boxes [Was: Writer: rotating a text frame ...]

2024-08-02 Thread John Kaufmann
ibreOffice has something else to work on, ;-) John On 2024-07-31 01:19, John Kaufmann wrote: ... ... the Drawing toolbar can insert a Text Box, not a Text Frame. Unfortunately, the Writer Guide and online Help are silent on this topic, so some testing is needed to work out the differences, which

[libreoffice-users] Frames vs text frames vs text boxes [Was: Writer: rotating a text frame ...]

2024-07-30 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2024-07-30 14:40, John Kaufmann wrote: ... ... the Drawing toolbar can insert a Text Box, not a Text Frame. Unfortunately, the Writer Guide and online Help are silent on this topic, so some testing is needed to work out the differences, which are subtle: - A Text Frame is conceptually a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: rotating a text frame with respect to the superordinate text

2024-07-30 Thread John Kaufmann
ip Jackson wrote: . . . What about trying the Drawing toolbar and inserting a text frame - that can be rotated from the properties list? Philip On 30/07/2024 11:57, John Kaufmann wrote: Mike, If I understand correctly, your suggestion addresses how to simulate a double-wide page at the cen

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: rotating a text frame with respect to the superordinate text

2024-07-30 Thread John Kaufmann
Mike, If I understand correctly, your suggestion addresses how to simulate a double-wide page at the center, using two frames. But that's not my problem. There is no problem having two different page sizes. That is just a matter of defining two page styles, then switching to the double-wide pa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: rotating a text frame with respect to the superordinate text

2024-07-29 Thread John Kaufmann
in further?Thanks,JohnOn 2024-07-29 21:44, Michael Coughlin wrote: Could you create two separate frames, one (for each page) and butt them close to the right and left margins of the two pages) and thereby create a "rotated" impression? On Mon, Jul 29, 2024

[libreoffice-users] Writer: rotating a text frame with respect to the superordinate text

2024-07-29 Thread John Kaufmann
NB: Five hours after posting this, I have seen no sign of receipt from the LibreOffice list, so am sending again. Please excuse me if that ends in redundant posts. -jk LO 7.6.5.2 I believe I have done this before (not recently), but cannot find the earlier example or a solution documented in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Dictionaries.

2024-07-17 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2024-07-17 11:16, T. R. Valentine wrote: ... Oxford spelling *insists* on the -ize ending and rejects -ise — see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling If you want the -ise ending you need to use en-gb Interesting that en-gb-oed prefers "ize" "on etymological grounds, in that ‑ize c

Re: [libreoffice-users] Please your help with Libreoffice

2024-07-10 Thread John Kaufmann
nding, my pre-computer-age mind has a harder & harder time trying to negotiate these ever-changing machines, From: John Kaufmann Date: Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 12:08 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Please your help with Libreoffice To: On 2024-07-09 20:44, anne-ology wrote: ...

Re: [libreoffice-users] Please your help with Libreoffice

2024-07-09 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2024-07-09 20:44, anne-ology wrote: ...Wishing I could help you; but maybe yours is similar to mine - I had to get a new Apple, & now when I attempt to open the LibreOffice, it seems to want to open then 'poof' it is gone. How did you install LibreOffice? - by transfer from y

Re: [libreoffice-users] Please your help with Libreoffice

2024-07-09 Thread John Kaufmann
3:50, Jarek Krcmar wrote: accept my appology, my operating system is windows 11 proffessional 64 bits. Jarek Dne 09.07.2024 v 4:45 John Kaufmann napsal(a): On 2024-07-08 16:05, Jarek Krcmar wrote: ... After some time when I had the portable version, I decided to go back to the installer versi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Please your help with Libreoffice

2024-07-08 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2024-07-08 16:05, Jarek Krcmar wrote: ... After some time when I had the portable version, I decided to go back to the installer version. After the installation was complete, I was told Unregistered file formats. When I wanted to open one of the odt files, I was offered a choice of applicat

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc auto complete from a list of cells

2024-06-26 Thread John Kaufmann
Dave, On 2024-05-29 16:38, dboland9 wrote: I was asked how to make an auto complete from a list of cells in another sheet in the same file. I thought the validation would work, but it only supports a scroll bar. That is fine for short lists, but not for hundreds of lines. Any suggestions on h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing the color of the selected cell in calc

2024-05-07 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi ady, On 2024-05-06 23:08, ady wrote: ... Is there a way to change the colour of the selected cell in calc to make it easier to see which sell is selected? ... In newer versions of LO Calc, ... ... The relevant options is: menu View > "Column/Row Highlighting" Would "newer versions" mean

Re: [libreoffice-users] Permission Issue

2024-04-05 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Michael, On 2024-04-05 05:33, GMX wrote: ... When I try to open a document created by LibreOffice with another document reader, I receive the message that I don’t have permission to open the document and shall contact the owner (me). Did I lock the document while writing it? Is there a se

[libreoffice-users] Custom date field in Calc

2024-03-14 Thread John Kaufmann
A twelve-year-old bug (46448 "... custom local settings for ... date and time formats") inherited from OO -- with Importance ranked between "high" and "fatal" -- bites Calc particularly hard (that is, harder than Writer), because there is no work-around (that I can see). In Writer, one can sele

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with Libreoffice

2024-02-20 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi larrie, On 2024-02-20 17:30, larrie ervin wrote: Whenever i put anything into my spreadsheet it comes up with a red box around it. Which i do not want. I would like an explanation or a fix for this. /Anything/? To troubleshoot unexpected behavior, it helps to narrow the range of inputs tha

[libreoffice-users] Calc Print Preview shows only first page of Print Range

2023-12-11 Thread John Kaufmann
LO 7.4.2.3 (x64) Print Range is defined ($A$1:$H$236), with Rows to Repeat ($1:$7), but only the first page ($A$1:$H$58) shows in Print Preview. (I don't recall having this problem before.) Can someone point me aright? John -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing MP4 files into Writer [was: support]

2023-12-10 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Yosef, On 2023-12-10 14:00, Yosef N wrote: Good afternoon I would like to know if you have a support number. No, but this list will do. Even when you were using MS Office (which has the resources for significant support), were you using a phone number for support? I searched inGoogle abo

[libreoffice-users] How to read a Style description

2023-10-19 Thread John Kaufmann
Dealing with a Style definition issue in Draw, I first noticed that the Style Inspector tool is not available in Draw (or Calc, for that matter), so presumably is a Writer-only tool. The next observation was that, in general, styles are not well supported in components other than Writer, so may

[libreoffice-users] LO Writer status bar: Page X of Y vs (Page X' of Y' to print)

2023-10-15 Thread John Kaufmann
Writer's status bar always begins with "Page X of Y", but recently I have noticed that in some documents it appends " (Page X' of Y' to print)", where X'=X+1 and Y'=Y+1. Invariably I find that the appended "(Page X' of Y' to print)" is the accurate count of visible pages, while the presumably a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple templates based on one

2023-10-12 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2023-10-12 16:32, martin f krafft wrote: Regarding the following, written by "lo.harald.ber...@t-online.de" on 2023-10-12 at 19:11 Uhr +0200: You can edit this document, usually "Untitled1", and save it again as a new document template. See also: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Videos/

Re: AW: [libreoffice-users] Labels and Business Cards: where are user definitions stored?

2023-09-07 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Susanne, On 2023-09-07 08:43, susanne.mohn...@kiel-pries.de wrote: ... Perhaps this will help you? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/DevGuide https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/DevGuide/Configuration_Management I am also looking for a way to deploy configuratio

Re: [libreoffice-users] Labels and Business Cards: where are user definitions stored?

2023-09-07 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2023-09-07 04:37, Regina Henschel wrote: ... John Kaufmann schrieb am 07.09.2023 um 05:33: Under Writer, Labels and Business Cards are substantially identical functions: a page array of frames (optionally linked?) to serve as containers for printable data (text or images). [For labels, the

[libreoffice-users] Labels and Business Cards: where are user definitions stored?

2023-09-06 Thread John Kaufmann
Under Writer, Labels and Business Cards are substantially identical functions: a page array of frames (optionally linked?) to serve as containers for printable data (text or images). [For labels, the data are typically (though not necessarily) entered via fields defined from a database.] Though

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cool! LibreOffice is free, open source and very good office suite!

2023-08-20 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2023-08-20 08:09, James wrote: Google "Targeted Individual in Singapore". The Singaporean government is out to get him. Ah! - never realized that was a Thing; sometimes curiosity is a rabbit hole. Thanks [ I think ;-) ] -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org P

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cool! LibreOffice is free, open source and very good office suite!

2023-08-19 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2023-08-18 10:14, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:/ Subject: Cool! LibreOffice is free, open source and very good office suite! ... Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individual in Singapore Sorry for the diversionary question, but as I followed this thread, I ke

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reading a crash report

2023-07-22 Thread John Kaufmann
Thanks, Mike. I know that I /can/ install cygwin. The point is that I have not, so have no idea what the crash report means by that. jk On 2023-07-22 22:15, Mike Flannigan wrote: I don't know if cygwin is needed to print Avery labels, but I can tell you that you can install cygwin on your comp

[libreoffice-users] Reading a crash report

2023-07-21 Thread John Kaufmann
LO (7.4.2.3, Windows 10) crashed when I tried to do a quick job with labels. To use sheet labels (Avery 5160) in a non-standard orientation (Landscape (W>H) for the page, which means Portrait (H>W) for the label), I simply defined a table (10-col x 3-row) to fill the page. Then I had text in la

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail bounce: alarmax...@gmail.com [Was: How can I rejoin this list please?]

2023-07-08 Thread John Kaufmann
;s post on this). I did what was recommended in the rejection mail and the problem disappeared. Apparently, Microsoft/outlook/google had made a change that affected non-customers. My sister reported the same phenomenon that was similarly corrected. Cheers Harvey On Sat, 2023-07-08 at 16:01 -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail bounce: alarmax...@gmail.com [Was: How can I rejoin this list please?]

2023-07-08 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2023-07-08 14:43, Harvey Nimmo wrote: I had this problem with any email sent to a gmail account. ... I doubt it's so simple, Harvey. I have no such problem with my own gmail account (which has no outlook.com server in the mix). jk -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail bounce: alarmax...@gmail.com [Was: How can I rejoin this list please?]

2023-07-08 Thread John Kaufmann
t the problem probably lies with my ISP.  I have asked him to check the headers to find out if the problem is with him or further away. Will let you know what I learn. Regards, Budge. On 07/07/2023 17:45, John Kaufmann wrote: Your email has not been hacked. All of my (and presumably others'

[libreoffice-users] Mail bounce: alarmax...@gmail.com [Was: How can I rejoin this list please?]

2023-07-07 Thread John Kaufmann
Your email has not been hacked. All of my (and presumably others') posts to the list in the last few days have returned that bounce from alarmax...@gmail.com - probably a list subscriber. The first obvious curiosity about this is that it's a gmail address, but the bounce comes from postmas...@o

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help please with multipage document.

2023-07-06 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2023-07-06 15:39, Budge wrote: I see the screenshot didn't copy.  Is this a settings thing here or rule for the site? The list works in plain text, not HTML, and does not take attachments. If you want to show a screenshot, best to use a sharing service like Dropbox and cite the URL. -- T

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I rejoin this list please?

2023-07-06 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2023-07-06 05:15, Budge wrote: I disconnected a year ago and now wish to subscribe.  Please advise how I can join. ... If not now subscribed, just send mail, Subject: "Subscribe", to: LibreOffice Users . -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Draw Newbie

2023-07-02 Thread John Kaufmann
Harald, thank you. Though I normally use a CAD program for building projects (because of libraries, BOM automation and all of the other benefits of specialized drafting software), I have used Draw for small projects, for all the reasons given in your link: because it's quick and easy, especial

Re: [libreoffice-users] Incorrect envelope dimensions passed to print driver

2023-04-12 Thread John Kaufmann
ormat and the one that the print driver maintains for printer operation. Where can I get information about these structural questions? On 2023-04-12 03:20, John Kaufmann wrote: LibreOffice 7.4.2.3, Windows 10 - Before reporting this as a bug, I would like to put this question here, because I am

[libreoffice-users] Incorrect envelope dimensions passed to print driver

2023-04-12 Thread John Kaufmann
LibreOffice 7.4.2.3, Windows 10 - Before reporting this as a bug, I would like to put this question here, because I am missing something. LO includes in its paper size library "#6-3/4 Envelope", a common North American size defined as: 3-5/8 (3.63) in (inches) high by 6-1/2 (6.5) in wide i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Rotating labels to landscape

2023-02-13 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Michael, On 2023-02-12 15:32, Michael H wrote: I don't understand why you would not use a 4 card (2x2) to 1 letter or a4 page layout instead of a 3x1 layout. It seems a waste of material to me. ... I don't disagree, but it's a matter of context: Rod asked a LibreOffice question in a LibreO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Rotating labels to landscape

2023-02-11 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Rod, On 2023-02-11 21:52, Roderick Anderson wrote: On 2/11/23 11:21, John Kaufmann wrote: On 2023-02-11 13:28, Roderick Anderson wrote: ... I have a need to create some 3X5 index cards with the content oriented along the 3" axis. I'm having no joy rotation the label form (Aver

Re: [libreoffice-users] Rotating labels to landscape

2023-02-11 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2023-02-11 13:28, Roderick Anderson wrote: ... I have a need to create some 3X5 index cards with the content oriented along the 3" axis. I'm having no joy rotation the label form (Avery 5388) to landscape. ... Trying to understand what you want to do that, I looked at Avery 5388, which has

Re: [libreoffice-users] Islamic Calendar Dates

2022-12-10 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2022-12-08 18:13, Toki wrote: ... In Islam: * The new day begins at sunset. * The new month begins at sunrise, after the new moon has been sighted. Judaism, is slightly more logical. Both the new day and new month begin at sunset. The new month begins on the sunset of the day that the new mo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Islamic Calendar Dates

2022-12-07 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2022-12-07 19:57, Toki wrote: All: When LibreOffice converts Gregorian to/from Islamic Calendar dates, when does it assume that the new Islamic day begins: * Sunset; * Midnight; * Sunrise; When LibreOffice converts Gregorian to/from Islamic Calendar dates, when does it assume that the firs

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Threading [was: Header beginning on page 2?]

2022-11-29 Thread John Kaufmann
as a misconfiguration and has been eradicated almost immediately.) Not complaining, just explaining why my mailer is configured as it is. On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 11:51 PM, John Kaufmann wrote: Dear RealNameTBA-as an aside to questions about LO operation: One can't help notice that none of

[libreoffice-users] Threading [was: Header beginning on page 2?]

2022-11-29 Thread John Kaufmann
Dear RealNameTBA-as an aside to questions about LO operation: One can't help notice that none of your posts are threaded (because of the absence of In-reply-to and References headers). Does ProtonMail not support (a) Reply-to-List and (b) threading generally? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users

Re: [libreoffice-users] Weird line-wrap problem in Writer

2022-11-27 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2022-11-27 18:45, RealNameTBA wrote: ... [The problem is] this (as illustrated in the small attached screenshot fragment): ... The first thing to be noted is that by now you are aware that the attachment did not make it to this list. Sorry, that's just the state of things, so it's necessary

[libreoffice-users] Position references

2022-10-15 Thread John Kaufmann
[Please excuse that the initial attempt to post this used HTML (for a table, to enhance clarity) but that was more mangled than anticipated in the list conversion to plaintext. So (again for clarity) I post again, in plaintext.] Anchoring an entity (frame, box, image, ...) is done with respect

[libreoffice-users] Position references

2022-10-15 Thread John Kaufmann
Anchoring an entity (frame, box, image, ...) is done with respect to position references:Horizontalreferences:Verticalreferences:Paragraph areaParagraph text areaLeft paragraph borderRight paragraph borderLeft page borderRight page borderEntire pagePage text areaMarginParagraph text areaEntir

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer Character styles: "Default Paragraph Font" vs "No Character Style" vs "- None -"

2022-10-09 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Michael, I apologize for taking days to reply. As I noted to Harald, I had to get through a week's emergencies to be able to think about what you both had written. On 2022-10-02 10:01, Michael H wrote: If you save your document as .fodt - Flat Opendocument, you can then open the document

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer Character styles: "Default Paragraph Font" vs "No Character Style" vs "- None -"

2022-10-09 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Harald, i apologize for taking days to reply. After a week of work emergencies, I have finally had a chance to digest your link and think through the issues. On 2022-10-02 12:35, lo.harald.ber...@t-online.de wrote: Am 02.10.2022 um 14:30 schrieb John Kaufmann: On 2022-10-02 02:50

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer Character styles: "Default Paragraph Font" vs "No Character Style" vs "- None -"

2022-10-02 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2022-10-02 02:50, lo.harald.ber...@t-online.de wrote: Am 02.10.2022 um 07:06 schrieb John Kaufmann: Discussing Character styles, the Help says of the particular style "No Character Style" that: "No Character Style is actually the set of character properties of the cur

[libreoffice-users] Writer Character styles: "Default Paragraph Font" vs "No Character Style" vs "- None -"

2022-10-01 Thread John Kaufmann
Discussing Character styles, the Help says of the particular style "No Character Style" that: No Character Style is actually the set of character properties of the current paragraph style. Choose No Character Style to reset the character properties of the selection to those of the paragraph s

Re: [libreoffice-users]

2022-09-21 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Robert, On 2022-09-21 12:03, Robert Großkopf wrote: That said, I can't say that I've noticed the change.  Was this a change? If so, at what point?  If we know that, the most useful place to start is probably with the release notes. Has been in edit-menue of Writer also in older versions.

Re: [libreoffice-users]

2022-09-21 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2022-09-20 10:02, rajpal bisht wrote: Keep 'Go to Page' option in view menu not in edit menu It's a small thing, but -- if you are posting that recommendation here, rather than in Bugzilla , in order to test sentiment -- I will agree with you: putting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Text Box - Font Size Changing in Libre Writer

2022-09-13 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2022-09-13 21:16, charles meyer wrote: I've only used text angling in a text box in Libre Writer once a while ago. I think I chose Format > Text Box and there's a text direction where you can pull this dial icon and it moves the test in any direction 360 degrees which is cool. The challenge

Re: [libreoffice-users] possible to know still or fresh looking at version number?

2022-09-04 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2022-09-04 04:09, jindam, vani wrote: is it possible to quickly tell whether lo is fresh or still by looking at version number? Does "Help" > "Check for Updates..." not do what you want? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base Views and Queries

2022-08-12 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2022-08-12 12:44, Robert Großkopf wrote: ... MySQL/MariaDB with different drivers will be a new thread - or shouldn't we try it per private mail? ... Robert, I have only been following this thread as a lurker, not contributor, but if I may offer a view on that question: I'm surely not the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LOWrite page numbers

2022-06-24 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2022-06-24 21:21, Chris J. wrote: ... I write stories where the chapters are individual files. First chapter has pages 1-15. Second chapter in a whole other file has to start with page 16. Is there a really straight forward example of this somewhere? I remember this being easier in Word. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] searching in Calc does not find anything

2022-06-06 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Thomas, On 2022-06-06 20:48, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: ... For years Crtl+F and then entering entering numbers or words used to find those, if they are in the sheets somewhere. For a few days now trying to find anything, numbers, digits, words ..., ALWAYS gives me "Search key not found", e

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc insists on capitalizing m^2 ...

2022-05-01 Thread John Kaufmann
Brian and Johnny, On 2022-05-01 08:50, Brian Barker wrote, and On 2022-05-01 10:52, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den sön 1 maj 2022 kl 14:46 skrev John Kaufmann: ... or any other quantity raised to any other power. Of course this is silly in a spreadsheet, where one wants to identify a

[libreoffice-users] Calc insists on capitalizing m^2 ...

2022-05-01 Thread John Kaufmann
... or any other quantity raised to any other power. Of course this is silly in a spreadsheet, where one wants to identify a measurement. "m" is OK, but "m^2" gets auto-'corrected' to "M^2". Likewise "Cm^2", "In^2", "Ft^2", "Inch^2", and so forth. It's embarrassing that I don't see how to tur

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread John Kaufmann
Draw and copy them to Writer. I wish you much success. Kind regards, Harald Am 25.04.2022 um 01:28 schrieb John Kaufmann: Thanks, Harald. That article is about using frames (including linked frames) to layout a DTP project; it does not address the Gallery, or even the inclusion of graphics g

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Regina, On 2022-04-25 04:25, Regina Henschel wrote: John Kaufmann schrieb am 24.04.2022 um 14:52: In years of using OO/LO (now @ 7.1.4.2), I have never been interested in the Gallery of multimedia objects. Now I have an application for it, and can't see how to execute a simple incl

Re: [libreoffice-users] changing currency in a spreadsheet

2022-04-25 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Dave, On 2022-04-24 17:26, Dave Howorth wrote: I have a financial spreadsheet that was designed in the USA but I live in the UK. Is there any way in LO to change all the cells that are formatted as numeric $ amounts to be the same format but using the equivalent numeric £ format instead? W

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-25 Thread John Kaufmann
Insert -> Shape -> Symbol Shapes", then choose either "Left Brace" or "Right Brace" as required. Once the shape is drawn and inserted you can freely position and size it to your requirements. On 25/04/2022 00:28, John Kaufmann wrote: Thanks, Harald. That article is a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-24 Thread John Kaufmann
cle helps you: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Videos/Layout_in_Writer Harald Am 24.04.2022 um 14:52 schrieb John Kaufmann: In years of using OO/LO (now @ 7.1.4.2), I have never been interested in the Gallery of multimedia objects. Now I have an application for it, and can't see how

[libreoffice-users] Using the Gallery - removing the descriptive text

2022-04-24 Thread John Kaufmann
In years of using OO/LO (now @ 7.1.4.2), I have never been interested in the Gallery of multimedia objects. Now I have an application for it, and can't see how to execute a simple inclusion of a graphic without its attached descriptive text. Specifically: in Writer I have a 4-page booklet/pamp

Re: [libreoffice-users] lines and movement with arrow keys

2022-03-09 Thread John Kaufmann
Carl, On 2022-03-09 17:00, Carl Paulsen wrote: I have inserted a line into a text document and have a few questions. ...  I have done this in the past using tab spaces with a right justified tab, but LO won't underline tab spaces. ... At the conclusion of her elegant reply to your question,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Make 4 Sheet in Libre Writer

2022-03-06 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2022-03-06 16:49, charles meyer wrote: ... I'd like to create a 4 sheet of a PNG in Libre Writer. In Writer, I followed these isntrctuons... https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/divive-page-into-4-parts-librewriter/36389/5 Format> Page SetUp>Columns and chose 2 Then, using the mouse I grabbed the c

Re: [libreoffice-users] SUM, SUMIF, IF, INDEX, MATCH, VLOOKUP?

2021-12-15 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2021-12-15 14:11, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: ... I am quickly losing patience with a task that requires a sum of values that occur on the same date, but at different times. My raw data sheet is in 4 columns [spaced for comprehension] Date/Time [stamp] | Value 1| Value Y| Value z 2021-1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Font size settings in paragraph styles

2021-11-22 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2021-11-22 17:50, Philip Jackson wrote: LO 6.4.7.2 in Ubuntu 20.4 Normally over the years with all my Writer documents I've been able to set font sizes in pts for H1, H2, H3, H4 etc heading styles with no problems. In the past couple of weeks I've come across documents where the font sizes

Re: [libreoffice-users] have a cell with text in different colors with function

2021-11-15 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2021-11-15 09:38, gmail-xplaster wrote: ... P,S, OT, I noted that the nabble platform doesn't work anymore, is it in use or not? There have been several threads in the past year about attempts to consolidate channels to improve support. With respect to nabble in particular, I think the lat

Re: [libreoffice-users] Defaults in Find dialogue and toolbar for Calc

2021-10-23 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2021-10-23 18:14, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den tors 7 okt. 2021 kl 00:28 skrev T. R. Valentine : On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 at 07:07, David Lynch wrote: The defaults in the Find toolbar and the Find dialog are: Direction: Rows Search in: Formulae I normally want the opposite: Search in columns (b

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to print a section of a SS

2021-10-16 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2021-10-15 20:25, John R. Sowden wrote: I went to Format->Print Range--> define.  Failed Went to Help (when all else fails) read, follow instructions, blank screen (no examples) Help?, Which version? [Defining a print range is where I usually start, but I just realized I have not printed

[libreoffice-users] Writer indents and spacing in "ch" and "line"

2021-08-28 Thread John Kaufmann
LO 7 introduced a new way of thinking about, and sizing, indents and spacing in Writer - from definite units of measure (inch, mm, pt, ...) to "ch" and "line" of a reference style's font characteristics. I'm sure there's a reason for that change, but still have not found it, and have not even

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Multi-column Format

2021-08-08 Thread John Kaufmann
Dave, On 16-Feb-2021 you started a thread ["How to ask a question on Ask LibreOffice?"] in this forum mentioning that you also [like Rob now] have a problem with the Ask system, and so tend to use this list instead -- which is fine: as noted in an earlier thread, Ask and this list are alternat

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer Callout Style settings

2021-07-25 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2021-07-25 16:54, Regina Henschel wrote: John Kaufmann schrieb am 25.07.2021 um 15:49: On 2021-07-23 20:30, Regina Henschel wrote: Steve Edmonds schrieb am 18.07.2021 um 23:05: ... Is it possible to set Writer callout text paragraph style (or default settings, if so where please. This is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer Callout Style settings

2021-07-25 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Philip, On 2021-07-25 16:04, Philip Jackson wrote: On 25/07/2021 15:49, John Kaufmann wrote: On 2021-07-23 20:30, Regina Henschel wrote: Steve Edmonds schrieb am 18.07.2021 um 23:05: ... Is it possible to set Writer callout text paragraph style (or default settings, if so where please

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer Callout Style settings

2021-07-25 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Regina, On 2021-07-23 20:30, Regina Henschel wrote: Steve Edmonds schrieb am 18.07.2021 um 23:05: ... Is it possible to set Writer callout text paragraph style (or default settings, if so where please. This is to avoid having to change the font and left hand offset in every line callout on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer Callout Style settings

2021-07-23 Thread John Kaufmann
properties are in inches. There is also a funny quirk where callouts become invisible (but still there) when the anchor is not in an appropriate place. Steve On 24/07/2021 08:18, John Kaufmann wrote: On 2021-07-18 17:05, Steve Edmonds wrote: Is it possible to set Writer callout text paragra

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer Callout Style settings

2021-07-23 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2021-07-18 17:05, Steve Edmonds wrote: Is it possible to set Writer callout text paragraph style (or default settings, if so where please. This is to avoid having to change the font and left hand offset in every line callout one at a time. When I first saw this question, I had no clue wha

Re: [libreoffice-users] specify an absolute sheet address (SOLVED)

2021-06-14 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2021-06-14 20:25, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: On 2021/06/13 2:55, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Another way to get around it is to name your range. Then your formula could look something like =VLOOKUP(N76;ZipCodes;2;0) Named ranges are absolute, always. ... Defining the data range in the sheet "Zip

Re: [libreoffice-users] LoCalc- convert a 4 digit number to time

2021-06-12 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2021-06-12 13:59, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den lör 12 juni 2021 kl 01:05 skrev Dutton: In cell A1 there's the number 1230 In cell A2 I want the number to appear as 12:30 (a time figure) If you only mean ”appear”, then just format the cell as: 00”:”00 or #0":"00 depending on w how you want t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice impress presentation - metropolis - exported as PDF, doesn't display correctly on some devices

2021-05-16 Thread John Kaufmann
Without knowing what you are exporting, I would not make a suggestion, but did you consider HTML? On 2021-05-16 23:43, Daffy Duck wrote: Yes, for distribution to a large amount of people, none of which use libreoffice. On Sun, 2021-05-16 at 23:36 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote: On 2021-05-16

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice impress presentation - metropolis - exported as PDF, doesn't display correctly on some devices

2021-05-16 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2021-05-16 19:27, Daffy Duck wrote: I made a presentation with impress, used Metropolis theme. I then exported it as PDF. The problem is, some, when opening on such things as iphones, get the text cut off, like the top part of the text is not showing, etc. Others, until they turn the phone

[libreoffice-users] Treating Labels like Envelopes

2021-05-12 Thread John Kaufmann
LO Writer provides three kinds of document constructs for similar structured purposes: o Envelopes (invoked by Insert > Envelope...); o Labels (invoked by File > New > Labels); o Business Cards (invoked by File > New > Business Cards). For the purpose of this

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx file formatting question. Using LO 7.0.5.2

2021-05-03 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2021-05-03 08:15, Ianseeks wrote: ... I downloaded a docx file ... where some pages were landscape format in the middle of the document. ... She then started editing it and when she got to the landscape pages, the landscape format had reverted to portrait and the table on the tried used the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Two parallel text flows in one document possible?

2021-04-16 Thread John Kaufmann
management. Thanks, John On 2021-04-16 16:23, Harvey Nimmo wrote: I just klick on the top of the one column to select the content of the whole column. Then go to Tools > Language > For Selection and select the language to be checked for that column. On Fri, 2021-04-16 at 07:45 -0400

Re: [libreoffice-users] Two parallel text flows in one document possible?

2021-04-16 Thread John Kaufmann
in the Font tab for all paragraph styles. Did you notice this? Dan On 4/16/21 9:33 AM, John Kaufmann wrote: Thanks, Dan. It's funny: I thought I knew styles, which are indispensable to any kind of serious writing, but never noticed that Language setting in the Character style Font tab. E

Re: [libreoffice-users] Two parallel text flows in one document possible?

2021-04-16 Thread John Kaufmann
riter Guide so you would have a good reference for other questions about Writer. Dan On 4/16/21 7:45 AM, John Kaufmann wrote: Sorry, but I was hoping you would ask HOW the spell-check language is set separately on each column. [I hate it when someone says "Of course" on an issue I don&#x

Re: [libreoffice-users] Two parallel text flows in one document possible?

2021-04-16 Thread John Kaufmann
Sorry, but I was hoping you would ask HOW the spell-check language is set separately on each column. [I hate it when someone says "Of course" on an issue I don't see.] ;-) Since you grasped it immediately, I'm afraid I must ask one of you: How do you do that? On 2021-04-15 14:22, Ulf Dunkel wr

Re: [EXTERNAL] [libreoffice-users] Non-breaking dash/hyphen

2021-03-24 Thread John Kaufmann
ed to give them more distinction from fielded values [2] =-ref-= [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_character [2] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58434 ____ From: John Kaufmann Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 2:21 PM To: users@global.

Re: [EXTERNAL] [libreoffice-users] Non-breaking dash/hyphen

2021-03-24 Thread John Kaufmann
odepoint, you'll get a fallback replacement or possibly the no glyph value for the font. When added to canvas the non-breaking hyphen character will receive NPC highlighting. ____ From: John Kaufmann Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:31 PM To: LibreOffice Users Su

Re: [EXTERNAL] [libreoffice-users] Non-breaking dash/hyphen

2021-03-24 Thread John Kaufmann
nt. When added to canvas the non-breaking hyphen character will receive NPC highlighting. From: John Kaufmann Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:31 PM To: LibreOffice Users Subject: [EXTERNAL] [libreoffice-users] Non-breaking dash/hyphen **EXTERNAL EMAIL** This email originated outside of Th

[libreoffice-users] Non-breaking dash/hyphen

2021-03-24 Thread John Kaufmann
I had always thought that the difference between a "dash" and a "hyphen" is that the dash is a character (that is, will not break a character string), while the hyphen hyphenates (that is, breaks at the end of a line if the character string following the hyphen is too long to fit on the line).

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