[libreoffice-users] Quick start without tray icon?

2014-01-13 Thread minhsien0330
Dear all: When we checked the option Enable systray Quickstarter, we preload libreoffice and have a Libreoffice logo icon on system tray. But there are too many icons on my tray, can I preload Libreoffce without tray icon? Thank you. Regards, Minhsien0330 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Quick start without tray icon?

2014-01-13 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:33 13/01/2014 +0800, Min Hsien wrote: When we checked the option Enable systray Quickstarter, we preload libreoffice and have a Libreoffice logo icon on system tray. But there are too many icons on my tray, can I preload Libreoffice without tray icon? Probably - depending on your

Re: [libreoffice-users] Quick start without tray icon?

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think Brian is mainly talking about Xp there. Win8 doesn't seem to have a system tray, but so far i've managed to mostly dodge Win8. Win7 allows you to set parameters for each individual icon in the system tray. Why does it matter how much stuff is showing in the system tray? My guess

Re: [libreoffice-users] a LibO/Calc problem (SOLVED)

2014-01-13 Thread Pertti Rönnberg
Thank you Paul and Brian for your interesting answers and for your kindness to send them so soon. I have not checked them yet but I am sure that both of them give me what I was looking for. I see thepros and cons in Paul's method: by splitting the calculation in details you can follow both the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Import into a Template

2014-01-13 Thread Tinkerer
James You have not read my request correctly. I know how to use Templates and I know you can add to the text, I also know that you cannot import another file into the Document, you can only Paste something in. This applies whether you are using a New Document, or one created from a Template.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Default Template

2014-01-13 Thread Tinkerer
Many thanks Brian. I wasn't until widened the Template Manager Window that I realised all these other options Existed. Tink. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/SOLVED-Default-Template-tp4091871p4091972.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at

Re: [libreoffice-users] Quick start without tray icon?

2014-01-13 Thread minhsien0330
I am sorry that I did not tell you I am using Linux (Debian). Thanks. Regards, Minhsien0330 2014/1/13 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com Hi :) I think Brian is mainly talking about Xp there. Win8 doesn't seem to have a system tray, but so far i've managed to mostly dodge Win8. Win7 allows you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Quick start without tray icon?

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) On GnuLinux just switch the Quick Starter off. It doesn't do much in GnuLinux apparently and might just make things awkward when you upgrade or try to run multiple versions. GnuLinux is completely different from Windows and designed to be much more responsive and efficient with resources

[libreoffice-users] (Serious) issues with Impress rendering documents

2014-01-13 Thread Community
When creating a document in Impress (using the fonts Papyrus and Comic Sans) everything is rendered fine, that is, sometimes the font size is getting decreased automatically/arbitrarily, filling the whole text box, but apparently using a font size bigger than indicated in the corresponding drop

Re: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs.

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It might be good to contact the developers about that. Perhaps post a bug-report and then use the drop-downs to turn into a feature request for someone keen to jump on. 76% is huge!! Regards from Tom :) On 11 January 2014 21:52, frank ernest do...@mail.com wrote: I think you could

[libreoffice-users] Re: a LibO/Calc problem (SOLVED)

2014-01-13 Thread Larry Evans
On 01/13/14 05:10, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: Thank you Paul and Brian for your interesting answers and for your kindness to send them so soon. I have not checked them yet but I am sure that both of them give me what I was looking for. I see thepros and cons in Paul's method: by splitting the

[libreoffice-users] Corrupt File! Help!!!

2014-01-13 Thread melodyfire
My husband has been working on a spreadsheet for over a month when last night our laptop was unplugged. The battery is busted and the only way to keep the laptop on is to have it plugged in. When he booted the laptop back up he was prompted to recover the file and the recovery failed.He is them

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: a LibO/Calc problem (SOLVED)

2014-01-13 Thread Pertti Rönnberg
Larry, Here is a copy/paste copy of Brian's comments to my message. I hope Brian does not mind. Regards Pertti Rönnberg Since years back I have copied my bank's digital listing of my bank account(s); first using MSOWord and later on MSOExcel. My intention is to transform these listings so I

[libreoffice-users] [calc]mmult with transpose arg drops last row

2014-01-13 Thread Larry Evans
I've a spreadsheet with 2 3x2 matridces side by side (A1:D3). I want to mmult(A1:B3;transpose(C1:D3)); however, the result has the last row truncated. IOW, the resulting matrix is 2x3 instead of 3x3. The spreadsheet also has the transpose stored separately in cells A5:C12, and then the mmult

Re: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs.

2014-01-13 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Frank, frank ernest schrieb: I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs. tar -c dir | xz -4 -e file.tar.xz 16,760 tar.xz 21,919 odt 76.46334230576213% there is no choice, how to compress the package, because it is defined in the standard, see

Re: [libreoffice-users] a LibO/Calc problem (SOLVED)

2014-01-13 Thread Pertti Rönnberg
Brian, Your formula workes perfect! Fantastic! And I learned a little more about creating formulas. Thanks again! Cheers ; skål (swedish) ; kippis (finnish) Pertti Rönnberg On 13.1.2014 3:13, Brian Barker wrote: At 17:55 12/01/2014 +0200, Pertti Rönnberg wrote: Since years back I have copied

Re: [libreoffice-users] Corrupt File! Help!!!

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) 1st thing is to copy the file that appears to be corrupted. 2nd is to find the User Profile and inside it the back-up folder and copy the relevant file that is hopefully in there too. Preferably put those copies on Usb-stick or email them to yourselves so that you have a copy that hasn't

Re: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs.

2014-01-13 Thread Cley Faye
2014/1/13 Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de Hi Frank, frank ernest schrieb: I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs. tar -c dir | xz -4 -e file.tar.xz 16,760 tar.xz 21,919 odt 76.46334230576213% there is no choice, how to compress the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Quick start without tray icon?

2014-01-13 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
Dnia 2014-01-13, o godz. 16:33:32 minhsien0330 minhsien0...@gmail.com napisał(a): Dear all: When we checked the option Enable systray Quickstarter, we preload libreoffice and have a Libreoffice logo icon on system tray. But there are too many icons on my tray, can I preload Libreoffce

Re: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs.

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, ok :) That makes sense now. It is, of course, possible to put several Odt documents inside another zipped file and that should benefit from the higher compression rate. I guess the feature request would be passed on to the OASIS committee but it sounds like they have probably already

Re: [libreoffice-users] Corrupt File! Help!!!

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ok, so you have made a copy of the corrupted file. The User Profile is here https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile well, that's the guide that describes where it is on the various different systems. I tend to try a few different approaches all at about the same time when faced

Re: [libreoffice-users] Corrupt File! Help!!!

2014-01-13 Thread mcmurchy1917-libreoffice
If you can't find a backup. Try this. You seem to indicate that the corrupted spreadsheet is called *name name.ods*. If that is what it is called copy the corrupted file to an empty folder/directory. In that folder/directory there should now only contain the file *name name.ods* unzip this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: libreoffice untitled docs constantly autosaving

2014-01-13 Thread John King
On 12/01/14 20:30, Luuk wrote: On 12-01-2014 20:38, Cley Faye wrote: Additionnaly, how did you install LibreOffice on your system? Did you use some distribution-specific repositories, or got it from the Libreoffice website ? Maybe there is something opensuse-specific that cause this. If it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Quick start without tray icon?

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I know probably everyone else knows this already but i just learned that i can kill a process by using it's name without needing to find it's PID! Since it's often Firefox that misbehaves after i push it t far i find this useful pkill firefox Then when i click on Firefox icon to open

Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice untitled docs constantly autosaving

2014-01-13 Thread John King
On 12/01/14 19:38, Cley Faye wrote: Additionnaly, how did you install LibreOffice on your system? Did you use some distribution-specific repositories, or got it from the Libreoffice website ? Maybe there is something opensuse-specific that cause this. If it doesn't happen with the version

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: a LibO/Calc problem (SOLVED)

2014-01-13 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:15 13/01/2014 -0600, Larry Evans wrote: I don't see Brian's reply to you (maybe he emailed you privately). No, it was sent to the list. See http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg36082.html . Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Quick start without tray icon?

2014-01-13 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
Dnia 2014-01-13, o godz. 19:16:14 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com napisał(a): I know probably everyone else knows this already but i just learned that i can kill a process by using it's name without needing to find it's PID! Yeah, I know that. But this is not an option here. pkill will, by

Re: [libreoffice-users] a LibO/Calc problem (SOLVED)

2014-01-13 Thread Paul
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:10:03 +0200 Pertti Rönnberg p...@elisanet.fi wrote: Paul's answer is interesting from another point of view also -- he changes the decimal sign from a comma to a period and replaces the periods replaced by commas to get the correct thousand separator. Well, you might

Re: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs

2014-01-13 Thread frank ernest
Acctually I thought that it was kinda obvious and I was thinking that you'd want to fix it before your ODT standard was widly adopted. It would be easier to change the code of 10 programs then 1000 once you finally retire the standard. You could also develop a split in the standard and call the

RE: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs

2014-01-13 Thread V Stuart Foote
Frank, Wrong venue... take the suggestion to the standards group for ODF https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office The LibreOffice project is simply an implementer and has greater issues with ODF standards. Kind regards, Stuart -Original Message- From:

Re: [libreoffice-users] I think you could significantly improve the compression on the odt docs

2014-01-13 Thread Cley Faye
2014/1/13 frank ernest do...@mail.com Acctually I thought that it was kinda obvious and I was thinking that you'd want to fix it before your ODT standard was widly adopted. It would be easier to change the code of 10 programs then 1000 once you finally retire the standard. You could also

Re: [libreoffice-users] Quick start without tray icon?

2014-01-13 Thread minhsien0330
Dear Mirosław Zalewski: Your solution is really a very good idea!!! Thank you!!! Best Regards, Minhsien0330 2014/1/14 Mirosław Zalewski mini...@poczta.onet.pl Dnia 2014-01-13, o godz. 16:33:32 minhsien0330 minhsien0...@gmail.com napisał(a): Dear all: When we checked the option Enable

[libreoffice-users] Similar Problem?

2014-01-13 Thread Vince Radice
I am seeing something and I don't know if it is a problem or something I have to live with. In the ~/.config/libreoffice/4/user/backup directory, I have 3,000+ files with 0 bytes. I assume that this means the files are empty. There are other files there which are not empty. The non-empty

Re: [libreoffice-users] getting larger set of colors that the standard that comes with LO -corrected URL

2014-01-13 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I am working on increasing the official installed color list/chart/table with a lot of new ones. In this folder, there are two standard.soc files, but I am working on an even larger one. https://owncloud.documentfoundation.org/Common/QA/New-Colors# My current working standard.soc file is

Re: [libreoffice-users] getting larger set of colors that the standard that comes with LO -corrected URL

2014-01-13 Thread tk
Did I send you a copyof the colour soc I use? (The one that is 2.5 MB in size, not the one that is 2.x GB in size. jonathon -- Sent from the eating establishment at the Far side of the Universe, at the begining of Time, and at the end of Space. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Corrupt File! Help!!!

2014-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) After you have created copies of the files can you rename the file ending of one from .ods to .zip and then double-click on that? It should open as though it is a compressed file so an archive manager should open it. If it works it wont look anything like the file! You should see various

Re: [libreoffice-users] Quick start without tray icon?

2014-01-13 Thread minhsien0330
Dear Mirosław Zalewski: I found an other convenient way to preload Libreoffice without tray icon, just put the following command line in ~/.xinitrc: soffice --nodefault --nologo Then, Libreoffice will be preloaded without tray icon in the background after I get into X. Thanks for your idea~

Re: [libreoffice-users] Corrupt File! Help!!!

2014-01-13 Thread Zeki Bildirici
13 Oca 2014 19:17 tarihinde melodyfire cowens33...@gmail.com yazdı: Hi, File corruption may occur in all platforms due to similar reasons. Dont be upset. Thanks to odf format the file can be examined. Probably some xml errors in styles.xml. If you have Ubuntu, install Emacs. It comes with great