[libreoffice-users] Position and Size - Rotation tab doesnt work in vers 4.1.1.2 (impress)

2013-09-04 Thread Gerald Pechoc
If I want to rotate either a LINE object or a RECTANGLE object it does not work, accept some 2 or 3 degrees deviation. I have done as described under https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Rotation but there is no correct result. In former versions that worked, but version 4.1.1.2 is not usable

[libreoffice-users] Same document and different count of sides under windows and linux libreoffice versions

2013-09-04 Thread Felix29
Hi, the same document is under linux 4 sites long and with windows it is 5 sides long (see attached document). I use opensuse 12.3 and LibreOffice Version 4.0:build-302 (Build ID: 400m0(Build:302)) and Windows 8 with LibreOffice Version: 4.1.0.4 Build ID: 89ea49ddacd9aa532507cbf852f2bb22b1ace28

[libreoffice-users] Same document and different count of sides under windows and linux libreoffice versions

2013-09-04 Thread Felix29
Hi, the same document is under linux 4 sites long and with windows it is 5 sides long (see attached document). I use opensuse 12.3 and LibreOffice Version 4.0:build-302 (Build ID: 400m0(Build:302)) and Windows 8 with LibreOffice Version: 4.1.0.4 Build ID: 89ea49ddacd9aa532507cbf852f2bb22b1ace28

[libreoffice-users] Same document and different count of sides under windows and linux libreoffice versions

2013-09-04 Thread Felix29
Hi, the same document is under linux 4 sites long and with windows it is 5 sides long. Here the link to the file: http://ubuntuone.com/743P8MptuvvRpsoTQgR9Dz I use opensuse 12.3 and LibreOffice Version 4.0:build-302 (Build ID: 400m0(Build:302)) and Windows 8 with LibreOffice Version: 4.1.0.4

[libreoffice-users] Table size

2013-09-04 Thread Malcolm Moore
How do I stop a table ( in this case a 1 x 1 table ) from expanding once it is full. Ideally I'd like it to stop accepting text at that point but just not getting any bigger would be fine Thanks Mal  -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Suggestion: Change the zoom with Ctrl+ Plus(+) and Minus(-) Key shortcuts

2013-09-04 Thread logos
Hello. I think it would be a good idea to add a shortcut when you are Editing Text to make bigger the zoom with Ctrl+ Plus(+) and smaller with Ctrl+ Minus(-) like the internet browsers. In normal view there is a zoom in and zoom out shortcut with Plus(+) and Minus(-) Keys, but not at the editing

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to show postgresql exception errors in 4.1 Base when using a form?

2013-09-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/09/13 22:29, Roger Nutbeam a écrit : Hi, I have a form for entering some data. The data is checked using a trigger function in postgresql. If an exception is raised by the function, nothing is shown in the form. It just doesn't complete entering the data, i.e. move to the next row in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to show postgresql exception errors in 4.1 Base when using a form?

2013-09-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I thought the postgresql connector got a fairly massive upgrade about a year or so ago?  It might be worth contacting the postgresql forums/mailing-list to see if any of their devs are able to do some more work on their connector or to see if we are just missing something about the

[libreoffice-users] LO 4.0.4.2 disappears if Minimised!

2013-09-04 Thread Maurice
Just discovered that if I accidentally hit Minimise instead of Exit, the current LO session seems to get lost, and the only way I can get back into the document is to Logout/Login and go through Recovery (thereby losing whatever changes I had made in the last session). After Minimising, how is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggestion: Change the zoom with Ctrl+ Plus(+) and Minus(-) Key shortcuts

2013-09-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Good post!  Thanks :)   This is a good first place to ask about almost anything.  If we don't know or if we think other places might want to have their say then we can always signpost you but people on this list might also carry on discussing the issues here too.  I think a lot of us,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Same document and different count of sides under windows and linux libreoffice versions

2013-09-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Usually that is because the Windows side has Page settings set to US Letter whereas the GnuLinux size assumes the more international A4 as used by almost the entire rest of the world (incl Canada).  You might find other programs in Windows also assume US Letter and to affect all of them

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.4.2 disappears if Minimised!

2013-09-04 Thread Maurice
On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:25:46 +, I wrote: the current LO session the current LO Writer session -- /\/\aurice -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines +

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Weblog extension not working in 4.1?

2013-09-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The chances are that they will be really happy to hear that people do like and enjoy using their Extension.  If they are able to make time to fix it for the newer versions of LibreOffice then they are likely to do so.  It might mean they need 1 version for AOO and another for LO so it's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Presentation slide does not show graphics visible in 'Normal'

2013-09-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  You might be suffering from an extremely rare and intermittent bug so it would be great if you could post a bug-report about it and let them know what you have tried already that didn't work https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport You might find a few duplicates and 1 might match

[libreoffice-users] Title page in LibreOffice

2013-09-04 Thread Cerda Männiste
Hello How can I create a title page in LibreOffice? I'd want it to look similar or just like it does in Microsoft Office. Thank you -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4.0.4.2 disappears if Minimised!

2013-09-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) When LO starts and offers the recovery option then just cancel that recovery.  That should get you to the right version of the document.  As to why LO is crashing in Mageia using KDE 4 i really have no idea.  Does your package-manager have a fix broken packages option?  If you installed

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4.0.4.2 disappears if Minimised!

2013-09-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr, i am not saying there is anything intrinsically wrong with Mageia or their tweaks it's only that i was suggesting changing one of the parameters of the problem to see if that fixes the problem and that might be one of the easiest things to change.  Of course you could try renaming

[libreoffice-users] Re: Suggestion: Change the zoom with Ctrl+ Plus(+) and Minus(-) Key shortcuts

2013-09-04 Thread logos
Thanks Tom. I have done it as you said. It's Bug 68929 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68929 -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Suggestion-Change-the-zoom-with-Ctrl-Plus-and-Minus-Key-shortcuts-tp4072947p4072970.html Sent from the Users mailing

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.4.2 disappears if Minimised!

2013-09-04 Thread Maurice
On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:47:24 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: When LO starts and offers the recovery option then just cancel that recovery.  That should get you to the right version of the document. OIC. Thanks, Tom! But why is there no simple way to de-Minimise a LO Writer session? As to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Same document and different count of sides under windows and linux libreoffice versions

2013-09-04 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: A4 as used by almost the entire rest of the world (incl Canada). Actually, we use US Letter in Canada. I have never seen A4 available in stores. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.4.2 disappears if Minimised!

2013-09-04 Thread Jay Lozier
-Original Message- From: Maurice maur...@bcs.org.uk To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.4.2 disappears if Minimised! Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 11:58:11 + (UTC) On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:47:24 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: When LO starts and offers the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.4.2 disappears if Minimised!

2013-09-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It 'should' be really easy to de-minimise.  Writer 'should' have a small tab-type thing in your taskbar/launcher/panel/whatever to show that it's still open and clicking on that 'should' bring the document back.  If it's just kinda disappearing then maybe it's weirdly gone to a different

[libreoffice-users] Title page

2013-09-04 Thread Cerda Männiste
Hi How can I create a title page in LO, looking similar or just like in Microsoft Office? Thanks -- 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:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Title page in LibreOffice

2013-09-04 Thread Krunoslav Šebetić
On 09/04/2013 01:46 PM, Cerda Männiste wrote: Hello How can I create a title page in LibreOffice? I'd want it to look similar or just like it does in Microsoft Office. Thank you Set the styles you wont and apply them to your title page. Make sure that title page has different page styles

Re: [libreoffice-users] Same document and different count of sides under windows and linux libreoffice versions

2013-09-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  Weird, i suspect a few other places might have other non-standard sizes too then.  Regards from Tom :) From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com To: LibreOffice users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2013, 13:01 Subject: Re:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Title page in LibreOffice

2013-09-04 Thread Krunoslav Šebetić
On 09/04/2013 02:23 PM, Krunoslav Šebetić wrote: Options in Format - First page might help. It's actually Format - Title page -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

[libreoffice-users] Re: Suggestion: Change the zoom with Ctrl+ Plus(+) and Minus(-) Key shortcuts

2013-09-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/09/13 11:42, logos a écrit : Can you not do this with the Ctrl and mouse scroll wheel forward/backward ? On Mac, this works in Writer/Calc/Draw/Impress (unless of course, you don't have a mouse, but you can use the touchscreen instead). LO Version: 4.1.1.2 Build ID:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Weblog extension not working in 4.1?

2013-09-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/09/13 13:28, Tom Davies a écrit : Tom, The chances are that they will be really happy to hear that people do like and enjoy using their Extension. If they are able to make time to fix it for the newer versions of LibreOffice then they are likely to do so. It might mean they need 1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table size

2013-09-04 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:00 04/09/2013 +0100, Malcolm Moore wrote: How do I stop a table ( in this case a 1 x 1 table ) from expanding once it is full. Ideally I'd like it to stop accepting text at that point but just not getting any bigger would be fine You probably want to use a frame instead of a table. On

[libreoffice-users] Re: Suggestion: Change the zoom with Ctrl+ Plus(+) and Minus(-) Key shortcuts

2013-09-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/09/13 16:04, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : On Mac, this works in Writer/Calc/Draw/Impress (unless of course, you don't have a mouse, but you can use the touchscreen instead). Forgot to mention that on Mac, we use the Cmd key instead of Ctrl. Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Suggestion: Change the zoom with Ctrl+ Plus(+) and Minus(-) Key shortcuts

2013-09-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That looks good to me :)  I'm not really familiar with posting bug-reports or feature requests but that look good imo.  It might be years before anyone looks at it or it might catch a devs attention tomorrow (QA will probably deal with it first).  There is never any way of knowing but

[libreoffice-users] Re: Suggestion: Change the zoom with Ctrl+ Plus(+) and Minus(-) Key shortcuts

2013-09-04 Thread logos
Thanks for everything Tom. I know it's complicated to have something implemented. Myself I have send some very little bugs in Archlinux for example and they took lot of time. I don't know if this will arrive to somewhere, but I'm happy traying to help a very little on this great program at least

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.4.2 disappears if Minimised! [SOLVED]

2013-09-04 Thread Maurice
On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 08:09:39 -0400, I wrote: it just disappears from sight... .. simply because my Panel is on the left horizontal edge of the screen, and there was insufficient space in the panel to show the Minimised LO icon! So LO Mageia exonerated. Humble apologies. -- /\/\aurice

[libreoffice-users] Re: Suggestion: Change the zoom with Ctrl+ Plus(+) and Minus(-) Key shortcuts

2013-09-04 Thread logos
Alexander, I'll do it with the Ctrl and mouse scroll wheel for now. At the internet browsers (e.g firefox, chrome,...) or in programs like evince watching pdf for example, you can zoom in or out with both, Ctrl and mouse scroll wheel or Ctrl and a +- key. That is why I think it would be a good

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Suggestion: Change the zoom with Ctrl+ Plus(+) and Minus(-) Key shortcuts

2013-09-04 Thread Dave Liesse
This works, from what others have posted, but it doesn't help those of us using laptops with touchpads (i.e., no mouse or scroll wheel). Dave On 9/4/2013 07:04, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 04/09/13 11:42, logos a écrit : Can you not do this with the Ctrl and mouse scroll wheel

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table size

2013-09-04 Thread malcolm
On Wednesday 04 Sep 2013 15:50:12 Brian Barker wrote: At 10:00 04/09/2013 +0100, Malcolm Moore wrote: How do I stop a table ( in this case a 1 x 1 table ) from expanding once it is full. Ideally I'd like it to stop accepting text at that point but just not getting any bigger would be fine

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cross Platfrom Support Question

2013-09-04 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
This may not be the answer your looking for, but a friend of mine showed this to me. They interpolate the functions to make your desktop a swipe device. http://www.splashtop.com/home Look at the videos at... http://www.splashtop.com/resource?type=demovideos Available on any device:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table size

2013-09-04 Thread Brian Barker
At 18:39 04/09/2013 +0100, Malcolm Moore wrote: Yes, but I already have a document that I inherited with tables not frames I understand all of that except the word but. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Suggestion: Change the zoom with Ctrl+ Plus(+) and Minus(-) Key shortcuts

2013-09-04 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:38 04/09/2013 -0700, Dave Liesse wrote: ... it doesn't help those of us using laptops with touchpads (i.e., no mouse or scroll wheel). You can often obtain the same effect using a touchpad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_wheel says: ... touchpads are often made with the edges

[libreoffice-users] Cell border line style is not show dash dash option in OO

2013-09-04 Thread Satish Srivastava
Dear Friends, In calc cell border is not giving the option of line style dash dash like - - - - - - -this. If we want to make our cell border is - - - - -. Can this is possible to perform in OO. Please help us if their is any add-on for this. *Thanks regards* Satish Srivastava -- To

Re: [libreoffice-users] Suggestion: Change the zoom with Ctrl+ Plus(+) and Minus(-) Key shortcuts

2013-09-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 4 Sep 2013 11:37:46 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hello Tom, I noticed that Ctrl and mouse-wheel does zoom in and out.  So presumably it might not be too tough to add the Ctrl and + or - to do the same thing.  Ctrl+ Ctrl- already have meaning in Spreadsheet,

[libreoffice-users] Start Up Question

2013-09-04 Thread Jay Ridgley
Folks, I seem to have gotten one of my settings messed up, and do not know how I did it. I want each instance of a spread sheet, document, presentation to be separate not connected. If I quit a spread sheet I want just that one to go away, NOT all of them. I have more then one set of files

Re: [libreoffice-users] Start Up Question

2013-09-04 Thread Don Myers
Hi Jay, I run Libre Office in Ubuntu also. I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 with Unity. I use the LO from the Document Foundation and not the PPA. The three applications I use most are Writer, Calc, and Base. I always place each of them in the Launcher. Many times I will have all three open at the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Start Up Question

2013-09-04 Thread Tim Lloyd
I always close a doc with F4. After pressing this I am returned to another doc or the start center if no other docs are open. Using Fedora 19 and 4.1.1.2 Cheers On 09/05/2013 12:29 PM, Don Myers wrote: Hi Jay, I run Libre Office in Ubuntu also. I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 with Unity. I use the