I: Re: [libreoffice-users] Permission Issue

2024-04-05 Thread Paolo Debortoli
I don't know this issue. I had by the way some issue with 2 things on Ubuntu Linux: an instance of LibreOffice running in memory after closing and a backup / temporary Copy of the document, which is some times kept, I guess, in tmp directory. These things May bring to similar behaviours.

R: [libreoffice-users] e-mail to author of Libreoffice

2024-01-27 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Hi. You have to provider more details about, likes software name and version. Then you can rise a bug, by following these instructions: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport checking in Google wether other people have faced the same problem can also be a good idea. Paolo  Il

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

2023-08-19 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Ok... Just to say still supported (for office users). Paolo  Il sab, 19 ago, 2023 alle 9:25, Gabriele Bertolucci ha scritto: > Back in 2014, Mozilla Corporation decided to stop working on Thunderbird and hand it off to the community. However, even though they are not updating this client

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

2023-08-18 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Hi people.  I use Thunderbird and like it.  It has a lot of good extensions too.  It works on windows 11 too  (but I Use ONLY linux). Back in 2014, Mozilla Corporation decided to stop working on Thunderbird and hand it off to the community. However, even though they are not updating this

Re: [libreoffice-users] User interface colour issues

2023-07-09 Thread Paolo Debortoli
ok, thanks,  please specify your operating system and desktop environment:  I also sometimes have similar  isseues   on ubuntu budgie. Paolo On Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 11:23:55 PM GMT+2, Sergeantmajormario wrote: Provided is a screenshot of LibreOffice on my PC, this is right I

R: [libreoffice-users] general input/output error when trying to open document

2023-03-16 Thread Paolo Debortoli
You can try to open on another PC or remove customizations: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?p=168160 Otherwise remove the lock file or reinstall LibreOffice: https://askubuntu.com/questions/491292/general-error-general-input-output-error-when-opening-documents-with-libreoff

R: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice parent company

2023-02-20 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Yes right. LibreOffice Is an independent project managed by The Document Foundation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Document_Foundation Paolo  Il dom, 19 feb, 2023 alle 21:46, Gabriele Bertolucci ha scritto: What? No company is behind LibreOffice. It's maintained by The Document

R: Re: AW: [libreoffice-users] State of docx support.

2022-10-21 Thread Paolo Debortoli
I had more problems with .docx files. I guess main problem Is that Microsoft uses a proprietari xml format pretending It Is standard xml, while It Is not.  Format changes continuosly, making It difficult to manage. So It depends on the versione of ms .docx. I guess this Will be an issue still

R: Re: [libreoffice-users] Closing and reopening Writer - ver 7.4.1.1

2022-09-19 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Hallo. I use LO on Ubuntu 22.04 with budget desktop. I had that issue sometimes with writer using previous versione of budget desktop. So It seems a problem related to desktop environment, I guess. Regards Paolo Il mar, 20 set, 2022 alle 1:29, Stephen Morris ha scritto: On 19/9/22 17:19,

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to delete ~/.config/libreoffice/

2017-02-26 Thread Paolo Debortoli
generally to perform such operations on system / configuration files or folder, I open the file manager with root privileges (from terminal: sudo nautilus - or thunar, nemo... whathever you have). you can rename, move or delete anything from there (essentially I rename files or folders

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with LO 5.3

2017-02-11 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Hi. Thank you for testing. I uploaded a working file (copia 1) on the bug report, you can use that for test. Paolo On Friday, February 10, 2017 1:49 PM, Bruce Hohl wrote: I saw your bug report. I did a quick test and also was unable to get "Sheet > Like to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with LO 5.3

2017-02-09 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Thanks. It's done: Bug 105907. Paolo On Thursday, February 9, 2017 1:18 AM, Bruce Hohl wrote: With respect to the problem you found with 5.3 you can file a bug report here: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with LO 5.3

2017-02-08 Thread Paolo Debortoli
, Paolo Debortoli <paolo_debort...@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi. I was using LO 5.2 till 2 days ago and I think I am going to downgrade to 5.2. Problem is: I have a sheet which download every 5 minutes stock market data (prices) from internet in html format. Data are inserted in cells an

[libreoffice-users] Problem with LO 5.3

2017-02-07 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Hi. I was using LO 5.2 till 2 days ago and I think I am going to downgrade to 5.2. Problem is: I have a sheet which download every 5 minutes stock market data (prices) from internet in html format. Data are inserted in cells and used for simple calculations. Since I updated to LO 5.3, the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice help menu

2017-01-18 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Hi. I don't understand your problem exactly. maybe you didn't install the help package 'offline help' from the site. the package name is: ' LibreOffice_5.2.4_Linux_x86-64_deb_helppack_it.tar' (it for italian, en for english etc...). when you call for help, it opens a local application/window

Re: [libreoffice-users] mail merge is incomplete

2016-12-24 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Hi. I heard more times there are still problems with mail merge function (as noted even in monaco, germany), but it provides its already functions: http://blog.worldlabel.com/2012/mail-merge-address-labels-in-the-excellent-free-libreoffice.html On Saturday, December 24, 2016 8:42 PM,

Re: [libreoffice-users] i of the most disturbing things about 5.0 libreoffice

2016-12-09 Thread Paolo Debortoli
It doesn't happen to me in LibreOffice 5.2.3.3. may be you can right-click destination and choose 'paste special', then choose from the menu. Hope this help. Paolo On Friday, December 9, 2016 2:33 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 12/9/2016 12:13 AM, fudmer rieley

Re: [libreoffice-users] Slow response time with Calc

2016-12-09 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Hi. I have a similar issue. I use LibreOffice 5.2.3.3 on Ubuntu xfce 16.04. I run a spreadsheet which downloads some data (ascii numeric) from an internet page and executes some elementary calculations with these data (total .ods is 33,3 kb). pc is i5 with 4 gb ddr4 ram; data are

Re: [libreoffice-users] MS Anniversary upgrade warning - not LO issue

2016-12-01 Thread Paolo Debortoli
try: http://windowsreport.com/anniversary-update-destroys-boot-loader-dual-boot-config/ http://www.legendiary.at/2016/01/04/windows-10-update-changes-partition-table-and-breaks-grub/ I am a linux ubuntu user since 12 years and noticed that since win 8.1 it is hard to install and maintain dual

Re: [libreoffice-users] Version 5.2.3

2016-11-04 Thread Paolo Debortoli
I've never had problems with mozilla on ubuntu (maybe you took a wrong page or it is a false positive). try: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ On Friday, November 4, 2016 2:00 AM, MR ZenWiz wrote: I tried to download the tar.gz file for this and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How do I install the current Linux version

2016-11-04 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Hi. I am using Ubuntu xfce with LibreOffice without problems since years. I mostly download the .deb packages from the internet sites via browser: they are zipped, so I unpack them in a directory on the desktop, open a terminal in that directory and run the command sudo dpkg -i *.deb in

Re: [libreoffice-users] extracting data from uri

2016-07-20 Thread Paolo Debortoli
-16 18:20, Paolo Debortoli wrote: > Hi. I am working on a calc sheet and need to insert data from an url: > The data you see is in JSON format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON someone tried to make an extension for it 2 years ago, but it seems to be not released rig

[libreoffice-users] extracting data from uri

2016-07-18 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Hi. I am working on a calc sheet and need to insert data from an url: https://finance.google.com/finance/info?client=ig=NASDAQ%3aAAPL I guess it generates a csv output (in the browser it is like: // [ { "id": "22144" ,"t" : "AAPL" ,"e" : "NASDAQ" ,"l" : "99.92" ,"l_fix" : "99.92"

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: about libreoffice 5.2

2016-07-01 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Yes, Linux in general uses less resources than Win (it is also more safe and doesn't require security software e.g. antivirus). For older machines you can use LXDE (Lx desktop environment such as the Lubuntu distro); it requires just 70 MB of ram. Paolo On Friday, July 1, 2016 7:37 PM,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: about libreoffice 5.2

2016-06-30 Thread Paolo Debortoli
On Thursday, June 30, 2016 6:59 PM, nasrin khaksar wrote: and also linux is suitable for programmers or at least for proffessional users. your opinion, but I wouldn't say that, after my 10 years experience... I am using it every day for everything Changing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: about libreoffice 5.2

2016-06-29 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Hi! I can confirm the issue about Microsoft and WinXP (no longer supported and affordable). The issue rised more protests when users face a 'mandatory' upgrade to the last version of win (more people complained 'it looked like mandatory to upgrade the system, but when I did, many things

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc suggestion

2016-06-20 Thread Paolo Debortoli
It is not the wrong place, but you may directly talk to developers in other places: https://www.libreoffice.org/community/developers/ https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/ https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice Suggestions, requests, contributions and new

Re: [libreoffice-users] Missing icons in quickstart menu (Linux)

2016-06-16 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Hi. I don't know which desktop environments are you using, but it seems mostly a problem with your os (I have usually similar problems with xfce on xubuntu; it loses periodically icons and thumbnails, but I am very happy with it, ms windows is not problem free). You may try something like:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO5.1 on Linux - Opening Writer document takes >1hr

2016-02-15 Thread Paolo Debortoli
as told by others, I am using LibreOffice 5.1 on linux ubuntu, centrino laptop... I don't have slow downs (but with smaller documents and and ssd drive). I guess it can be a matter of hdd or document size. Paolo Debortoli On Monday, February 15, 2016 6:33 AM, Patrick Dijkgraaf

Re: [libreoffice-users] Linux alternative

2015-07-18 Thread Paolo Debortoli
higher quality). Paolo Debortoli On Saturday, July 18, 2015 10:31 AM, yahoo-pier_andreit pier_andr...@yahoo.it wrote: On 07/18/2015 09:32 AM, Thomas wrote: On 2015/07/18 6:50, Jack Wallen wrote: Thank you for sharing that, Charles (I'm the author). Glad to know it resonated. Jack Thank YOU

Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm bug 75376

2014-02-23 Thread Paolo Debortoli
problem seems solved, it doesn't show on LO italian 4.2.0.4 on linux ubuntu. On Sunday, February 23, 2014 5:46 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2014-02-22 6:25 PM, upscope upsc...@nwi.net wrote: On Saturday, February 22, 2014 07:45:34 PM M Henri Day wrote: 2014-02-22

Re: Formats failed marketing, was: Fwd: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread Paolo Debortoli
. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 21:57:50 PM +, Paolo Debortoli wrote: hi. I work in a state school, using ms windows and ms office... i think I know the policy of microsoft. I think they use a sort of (apparent) programmed obsolescence for the software

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread Paolo Debortoli
I am using a version of linux based os since 5 years  (a distribution; linux is the kernel). there are many distributions available (the CERN of geneve has also developed its own version), you can download and install it or free.  institutions, schools and universities are moving to linux and

Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-29 Thread Paolo Debortoli
hi. I work in a state school, using ms windows and ms office...  i think I know the policy of microsoft.  I think they use a sort of (apparent) programmed obsolescence for the software.  I mean: periodically they add a new version with some changes in interface, macro programming, functions and

Re: [libreoffice-users] OOOlatex

2013-11-25 Thread Paolo Debortoli
hi. I don't know this extension, i just think it deserves some atenction. a few days ago i was reading in a linux mailing list of somebody needing a latex output (to write for magazines an international reviews) but looking for features available in libreoffice (mainly word and carachters

[libreoffice-users] seems a bug problem

2013-08-01 Thread Paolo Debortoli
and the document was successfully exported...  compattibility ?  print rights ?   boh! Paolo Debortoli -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http

Re: [libreoffice-users] Save as doc crashes LO

2013-02-14 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Il 13/02/2013 20:56, steveedmonds ha scritto: Hi. Saving a writer document as .doc crashes my LO on OpenSuse. Could someone please try on 4.0 and if it persists I will file a bug. perf_calc_translations.odt http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4037263/perf_calc_translations.odt Cheers,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0

2013-02-07 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Il 06/02/2013 00:46, Paolo Debortoli ha scritto: Il 05/02/2013 13:53, Tom Davies ha scritto: Hi :) Will MSO ever catch up on security or cross-platform compatibility? security maybe (but it is not on the ms's vip list), but not cross-platform... can you imagine ms dealing with linux

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.0

2013-02-05 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Il 05/02/2013 13:53, Tom Davies ha scritto: Hi :) Will MSO ever catch up on security or cross-platform compatibility? security maybe (but it is not on the ms's vip list), but not cross-platform... can you imagine ms dealing with linux (as many public administrations un europe are doing) ?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-04 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Il 04/02/2013 08:22, ha scritto: Another thing... why doesn't artwork work on writer??? artwork ? sorry, in case it is a image format, try to convert / export to another format, or try to look for tools, extensions to convert / import it if you mean the tool 'wordart' of ms office,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggests

2013-02-03 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Il 03/02/2013 22:26, Johnny Rosenberg ha scritto: 2013/2/3 Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com: On 02/03/2013 07:58 AM, Roberta wrote: Can you make libreoffice's interface more similar to the office 2013 one's? Another thing... why doesn't artwork work on writer??? Personally I keep wondering:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing 4.0 alongside 3.5

2013-01-26 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Il 26/01/2013 20:02, Johnny Rosenberg ha scritto: For some reasons I want to try the upcoming version 4.0. On the web page, they say ”You are not recommended to use LibreOffice pre-release builds for mission-critical purposes”. So obviously I need a stable version as well, like the 3.5.7.2 that

Re: [libreoffice-users] java error

2013-01-23 Thread Paolo Debortoli
. thanks. yes, I found it only once till now. soffice.bin sometimes shows some strange behaviour... I will see if i find other similar errors. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2013/1/23 Paolo Debortoli paolo_debort...@yahoo.com mailto:paolo_debort...@yahoo.com hi. i have found

[libreoffice-users] java error

2013-01-22 Thread Paolo Debortoli
hi. i have found (ubuntu with libreoffice 4.0) a file named 'hs_err_pid11845.log' saying: A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: # # SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x7f5a779caf5c, pid=11845, tid=140025396197120 # # JRE version: 7.0_09-b30 # Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server

Re: [libreoffice-users] base masks

2013-01-21 Thread Paolo Debortoli
Il 21/01/2013 23:10, Dan Lewis ha scritto: On 01/21/2013 03:00 AM, Paolo Debortoli wrote: Il 21/01/2013 01:48, Dan Lewis ha scritto: On 01/20/2013 05:58 PM, Paolo Debortoli wrote: hi. using base... is there a way to open masks without borders or tools, just the mask, to make it smaller

[libreoffice-users] base masks

2013-01-20 Thread Paolo Debortoli
hi. using base... is there a way to open masks without borders or tools, just the mask, to make it smaller ? -- www.libreoffice.org -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/

Re: [libreoffice-users] making it easier

2013-01-14 Thread Paolo Debortoli
From: lordmax tdf lordmax-...@email.it To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 9:48 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] making it easier Ciao Il 13/01/2013 17:15, Paolo Debortoli ha scritto: as known, the province of Bolzano

[libreoffice-users] making it easier

2013-01-13 Thread Paolo Debortoli
as known, the province of Bolzano in Italy has adopted officially LO.  talking to people working there, they say that LO 3.5 on windows xp workstations works more quickly then msoffice, but is slower in opening, when they start the software.  listening to them the problem should be the search

[libreoffice-users] RC1

2013-01-12 Thread Paolo Debortoli
I just unstalled LO 4.0 RC1.  nice job, everything seems fine and working. just in case you use linux and need to uninstall the beta2 version, package name is 'lodev'...  otherwise it's hard to find  (need to mention in the installatio guide). -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Would it be OK to have an Urban dictionary words. . .

2013-01-12 Thread Paolo Debortoli
I was looking at some articles and one mentioned the Urban Dictionary.  This seems to be a list of English Language Slang words and phrases. Would that be something that would be useful as a add on dictionary to LibreOffice? it would be an idea...  but meant as sysnonyms or kind of

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice on Win2008 with RDP terminal services

2013-01-10 Thread Paolo Debortoli
From: Mieszko Kaczmarczyk mieszko.kaczmarc...@wetzel.co To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:57 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice on Win2008 with RDP terminal services W dniu 2013-01-09 16:09, Tom Johnson pisze:

[libreoffice-users] data order

2013-01-05 Thread Paolo Debortoli
hi. I am preparing a calc file with 2 sheets; one with the results of matches and a first league table in alphabetical order; the second with the same  league table, but ordered by points, ranks. If I order the 'total points' column, it orders just thi colums, leaving the others unchanged

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc moves charts to top left corner

2012-12-31 Thread Paolo Debortoli
try to change the 'anchor' attribute; click out of the graph, then right click on the graph and choose 'anchor';  try to change and move,  otherwise report a bug. From: Freezer suppor...@ex-fathers.org To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, December

[libreoffice-users] ubuntu libreoffice bugs tracking

2012-12-30 Thread Paolo Debortoli
I don't know wether such bugs are already known or should be connected to LO bugzilla or so.. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is the error log?

2012-12-29 Thread Paolo Debortoli
From: Nino Novak nn.l...@kflog.org To: webofht-libreoffice...@yahoo.com.hk Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 12:42 PM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where is the error log? Am 29.12.2012 08:25, schrieb C. H. D.:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office listed in petition to promote the use of free software in our schools

2012-12-28 Thread Paolo Debortoli
From: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk To: Alan Boba abo...@gmail.com; users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org; us...@us.libreoffice.org us...@us.libreoffice.org Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 1:51 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users]

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggest adding one more QA step before release

2012-12-13 Thread Paolo Debortoli
i think everything is working well at the moment. i have found very marginal problems with LO until now.  i just suggested time ago that LO should include an automatic crash report (such as ms office, firefox and other software), which can be enabled or disabled by the user in the software

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I associate LOO with all the files types LOO used easily?

2012-11-25 Thread Paolo Debortoli
I never use windows, but if i remember correctly, it should be:  file-properties-open with...-apply to all files of this type   or something like:  system (form the operating system's menu)  file types/associations i.e.:   start / control panel / programs / predefined programs / associate a

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to edit MS doc(x) files without breaking it for MS?

2012-11-19 Thread Paolo Debortoli
hi all.  i had the same problem receving via email from an office .docx files.  when I try to import the file in libreoffice it crashes and does not allow to import in any way.  the solution I found is to open such file with gwoffice (google office app, you need a google account connected to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?

2012-11-19 Thread Paolo Debortoli
yes, microsoft has a strong monopolistic policy.  furthermore the attempts of big pc producers to sell desktops and laptops with linux instead of windows failed.  however there are promising producers such as garlach44 or system76 who provide nice pcs with linux.  however it seems clear that

[libreoffice-users] file name suggestion

2012-09-05 Thread Paolo Debortoli
in a message on facebook, somebody suggested that writer when first saving a document should copy a feature of m$ word:  compose automatically the document name  using the first vtwo words of the document itself, instead of naming it something like 'document without name'.  it would be

Re: [libreoffice-users] file name suggestion

2012-09-05 Thread Paolo Debortoli
From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 11:51 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] file name suggestion Paolo Debortoli wrote: in a message on facebook

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx file writer 3.6.0

2012-09-02 Thread Paolo Debortoli
the document was sent to me by email from the office From: anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com To: Paolo Debortoli paolo_debort...@yahoo.com Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, September 2, 2012 1:48 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] docx file writer

[libreoffice-users] docx file writer 3.6.0

2012-09-01 Thread Paolo Debortoli
hi. I have a .docx file created with ms word, but when I try to open it with libreoffice writer 3.6.0  (on linux ubuntu)   it crashes and closes immediately without showing anything...  I don't know why -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?