Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 6.2 Writer tab stops

On 2019-08-12 00:38, John Kaufmann wrote: It has been months, and several releases, since I last used LO in any serious way, and it seems that, somewhere in the transitions from 4.? to 5.? to 6.2, Writer tab settings have been displaced. The LO 6.2 online Help says: "You can set

[libreoffice-users] LO 6.2 Writer tab stops

It has been months, and several releases, since I last used LO in any serious way, and it seems that, somewhere in the transitions from 4.? to 5.? to 6.2, Writer tab settings have been displaced.  The LO 6.2 online Help says: You can set a tab stop by clicking

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer 6.3.4.2 hangs on "Save as"

On 2020-02-28 20:52, chrispforr wrote: ... Abruptly, on Windows 10, using Writer ver 6.3.2, I was unable to change the name of existing .odt documents (but still able to save new documents, and to save existing documents without changing the name.) Result: LibreOffice hangs and I need to use

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer 6.3.4.2 hangs on "Save as"

On 2020-02-29 14:15 Steve Edmonds wrote: Have a look at Tools>Options>Libreoffice>General>Open/Save Dialogues. I had to select Use Libreoffice Dialogues because I was having a problem with the OS dialogues and LO, I think I was getting freezing. Curious: I find no problem with "Save As"

[libreoffice-users] Impress Remote

Since the latest update, I have left on "Show tips on startup" for the "Tip of the day". Today's was about Impress Remote. I was not aware of it, so looked at the link , which says: "Download Impress Remote from

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress Remote

t; page for iOS. On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 12:56 PM John Kaufmann wrote: Since the latest update, I have left on "Show tips on startup" for the "Tip of the day". Today's was about Impress Remote. I was not aware of it, so looked at the link < https://help.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer will not print envelopes

On 2020-02-05 12:33, williamdrescher wrote: Version: 6.2.8.2 (x64) Build ID: f82ddfca21ebc1e222a662a32b25c0c9d20169ee I insert an envelope into a document. When I then print the document the first page (the envelope) prints as a blank page. The rest of the document prints just fine. Any

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer will not print envelopes

On 2020-01-31 05:36, williamdrescher wrote:> Win10 Version: 6.2.8.2 (x64) Build ID: f82ddfca21ebc1e222a662a32b25c0c9d20169ee I insert an envelope into a document. When I then print the document the first page (the envelope) prints as a blank page. The rest of the document prints just fine.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Just an opinion

On 2020-02-22 17:04, txemaclon wrote: ... Libreoffice writer is a thousand times better than MS Word. But ... I think Writer is too similar to Word, or at least too much inspired by him, and so it is very difficult to be something really good. ... Without disagreeing with either of your

Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing the case of first letter of every paragraph

On 5/3/20 6:28 pm, Keith Bates wrote: I have been using the voice typing feature in Google Chrome to write some documents, then download them in .odt format for editing. I find that it consistently starts a new paragraph with a lower case first letter. So I need to find the first letter of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Setting up Custom Outline Format

On 2020-04-08 12:28, Robert Steinmetz wrote: On 4/6/20 12:53 PM, Robert Steinmetz wrote: On 4/3/20 3:51 PM, Robert Steinmetz wrote: I need Something like this: 1 Section - 1 2 1.1 3 A. 4    1) 5 a) 6    1.2 7 Section  - 2 8 2.1 9    A. 10  

Re: [libreoffice-users] The bootstraprc/bootstrap.ini configuration variables

On 2020-04-14 10:34, Dan Lewis wrote: On 4/14/20 01:28, John Kaufmann wrote: For "Installing several versions of LibreOffice in parallel" <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel>, the wiki discusses editing bootstraprc (Linux) or bootstrap.ini (Wi

Re: [libreoffice-users] The bootstraprc/bootstrap.ini configuration variables

Hi Regina, On 2020-04-15 03:15, Regina Henschel wrote: John Kaufmann schrieb am 15-Apr-20 um 05:18: ... in the spirit of teaching me how to fish, can you tell me the terms of your "quick search"? I don't remember the exact ways, but one was with the variable names you have

Re: [libreoffice-users] The bootstraprc/bootstrap.ini configuration variables

On 2020-04-15 09:08, Pulkit Krishna wrote: A graphical way to install multiple versions of libreoffice on windows is Separate Install GUI. It can be downloaded from: http://tdf.io/siguiexe Its documentation can be found at:- https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/si-gui/help/en.html

Re: [libreoffice-users] The bootstraprc/bootstrap.ini configuration variables

Hi Regina, On 2020-04-14 07:48, Regina Henschel wrote: John Kaufmann schrieb am 14-Apr-20 um 07:28: For "Installing several versions of LibreOffice in parallel" <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel>, the wiki discusses editing bootstraprc (Linux)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Copying Pasting in Libre Writer

On 2020-04-13 12:12, charles meyer wrote: ... I choose Select all or do Ctrl/A, then copy a Web site of text and live links inot Writer and it appears with blue background so it's difficult to read. If I copy/Paste Special it loses the live links. There are no photos or other graphics on the

[libreoffice-users] The bootstraprc/bootstrap.ini configuration variables

For "Installing several versions of LibreOffice in parallel" , the wiki discusses editing bootstraprc (Linux) or bootstrap.ini (Windows), changing the "UserInstallation" variable using configuration variables $SYSUSERCONFIG and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Setting up Custom Outline Format

On 2020-04-03 13:24, Robert Steinmetz wrote: I have been attempting to set up a custom outline format and have searched the Internet for an answer but many of the answer refer to older versions of LO and I really am having trouble understanding how to do it. So which version are you using?

[libreoffice-users] LO Styles organization

I'm trying to understand what is contained in LO styles [which I know changes according to style class (for Writer: Paragraph, Page, etc)]. To simplify this question, I have decided to: (a) focus on a Page style (instead of the more complex Paragraph style) to understand the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Styles organization

On 2020-05-05 17:51, Michael H wrote: I tried approaching this from the dialogs, and eventually gave up trying to map it back to the spec. Michael, I begin by observing that, while you have dropped many intriguing hints, you are way ahead of me, so I hope you will excuse a couple of novice

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Styles organization

e relationship between a style's Organizer tab "Contains" section and the attributes defined in the style, but that may come from more more digging through the spec. If so, I will post back to complete the thread. This is basic to understanding how styles are structured and used in a document.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Clear all tables in Writer

On 2020-08-30 12:41, charles meyer wrote: I often copy/paste content from forums, etc. Writer seems to automatically place all that comets into tables and them I have to cut, delete rows, etc. and spend a lot of time eliminating the table formatting. If I copy/paste special it removes graphics

[libreoffice-users] Draw styles (and Writer Paragraph Style views)

Draw does not have "default" styles, as there are in Calc or Writer, but does have two classes of styles -- Drawing and Presentation -- which it (kind of) shares with the Impress module. Trying to understand the design philosophy in order to use them efficiently, I looked into the Help (which

[libreoffice-users] Writer "Show variable" from Custom Properties?

The current Writer Guide (WG60, I believe) says that one way to define variables (particularly, but not limited to, text values) for use in a document is in "Custom Properties" (File > Properties > Custom Properties). Unfortunately, variables so defined do not show in the "Show

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer "Show variable" from Custom Properties?

On 2020-10-20 00:53, John Kaufmann wrote: The current Writer Guide (WG60, I believe) says that one way to define variables (particularly, but not limited to, text values) for use in a document is in "Custom Properties" (File > Properties > Custom Properties). Unfortunate

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

Hi Brian, On 2020-07-21 14:09, Brian Barker wrote: At 01:16 21/07/2020 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote: ... AutoCorrect had the effect of changing most non-empty "Default Style" paragraphs to "Text Body" style, with the rest chosen [by spacing hints?] to be "Hanging Inden

[libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

Documents archived in Project Gutenberg are typically simple text, with each line ending in (Hex:0D0A), so that paragraphs are separated by an empty line . I thought it would be simple to convert one such (5657.txt) to format in Writer, but stumbled on elementary problems in Find-&-Replace

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

Brian, On 2020-07-21 22:21, Brian Barker wrote: At 01:16 21/07/2020 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote: You sent me to do something I should have done before asking the question: examine a hex dump of an ODT content.xml file. I see what you mean about "no codes": A paragraph is just a t

Re: [libreoffice-users] defective field in header on one page

On 2020-08-01 12:24, Philip Jackson wrote: I'm carrying out a minor rework on a book I wrote in Writer some 3 years' ago. The problem which is stumping me is that the field which displays the chapter name in the header of the right hand pages is missing on page 37. ... Anything I do to reapply

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add a bookmark to TOC

On 2020-08-01 09:39, Luuk wrote: ... Somtehing like this document: https://gofile.io/d/KzdBTw ? I'm sure that solves OU's problem, but: (1) How did you make the word/paragraph "Dedication:" an indexing target? (2) To hide it, what was the reason for choosing a White font color rather than

Re: [libreoffice-users] Date acceptance patterns and date/time fields

On 2020-07-31 17:28, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den fre 31 juli 2020 kl 20:57 skrev John Kaufmann: ... ... Draw also appears to be not flexible, but uses /different/ formatting for Date (MM/DD/) and Time (HH:mm:ss AM|PM). This seems to be the worst of all possible choices, because

Re: [libreoffice-users] Date acceptance patterns and date/time fields

On 2020-07-31 18:26, Dave Howorth wrote: ... I agree though that it's strange that fields don't work the same over the whole suite. Seems like someone unnecessarily re-invented the wheel, and did that more than once… I agree with those sentiments. I'm in the UK and Draw doesn't offer me any

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add a bookmark to TOC

On 2020-08-02 12:46, Office User wrote: On 02/08/2020 15:34, Luuk wrote: On 2-8-2020 13:06, User wrote: ... Unfortunately, I wasn't able to view your document, because the Google dictatorship would not allow me to see it without creating one of their malware accounts. ... Malware is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add a bookmark to TOC

On 2020-08-02 07:06, User wrote: Thanks Michael. I am sure there is a use for your method, but it is much too complicated for my small requirement. Actually, Dave, Michael's method (inserting an index mark in the Dedication paragraph) is the simplest and easiest way to accomplish what you

Re: [libreoffice-users] defective field in header on one page

On 2020-08-02 07:24, Philip Jackson wrote: On 01/08/2020 21:41, John Kaufmann wrote: On 2020-08-01 12:24, Philip Jackson wrote: I'm carrying out a minor rework on a book I wrote in Writer some 3 years' ago. The problem which is stumping me is that the field which displays the chapter name

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add a bookmark to TOC

Hi Girvin, On 2020-08-01 17:48, Girvin Herr wrote: ... here is another solution, manipulating the TOC format, which I use some times: 1. Create a new style, say "Dedication", and assign this style to the    text you want hidden in the document body (i.e. the dedication    heading). You can

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add a bookmark to TOC

Hi Michael, On 2020-08-01 16:12, Michael H wrote: Instead of building the Table of contents by "paragraph style", create a Index of type "Table of Contents" using "Index marks". https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CArlrl1zeQAWGxWrGVbxmtVdgNNNjmz9/view?usp=sharing> In the example I insert the

[libreoffice-users] Date acceptance patterns and date/time fields

For many years my filing has used a kind of 'modified-ISO' 12-digit date/time pattern: -MMDD-HHmm. Advantages are that it is compact, easily read, sorts and is a valid filename string in all OS. Writer has very flexible field formats, giving the option to format Date fields as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Insert Date - Special Characters - Scanning

On 2020-06-29 13:46, Philip Jackson wrote: On 29/06/2020 18:07, charles meyer wrote: Also, under special characters it lists the equal to or greater than symbol but not the … not greater than symbol. What’s the number for that? ex. A235 The special characters listed are font dependent. For

Re: [libreoffice-users] Inverting a whole column

On 2020-06-29 20:44, Brian Barker wrote: At 16:11 29/06/2020 -0700, Mark Noname wrote: Some [financial institutions] do the deposits as positive and the debits as negative, and others do the reverse. Is there an easy way to multiply an entire column by -1 so I can make them all fit a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Insert Date - Special Characters - Scanning

On 2020-06-29 12:07, charles meyer wrote: ... Lastly, I scanned (Using Prestol Manager on a Cannon scanner) a printed page which contains Web site urls listed. I exported that image into WordPad and saved as am .rtf file. It opens in Libre Writer as if it’s a graphic image (with a box around

Re: [libreoffice-users] Insert Date - Special Characters - Scanning

On 2020-06-30 09:06, Philip Jackson wrote: On 30/06/2020 03:36, John Kaufmann wrote: ... Do you know of a quick way to query which fonts in system include a particular character (that is short of manually testing each font) ... the short answer is, 'No.'   But on linux, I have Font Manager

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Insert Date - Special Characters - Scanning

On 2020-06-30 09:23, V Stuart Foote wrote: ... ... Do you know of a quick way to query which fonts in system include a particular character (that is short of manually testing each font)? For Windows users, the freeware BabelMap utility (Andrew West's BabelStone project) is helpful. Do this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Navigator position unstable [Was: Position of caption]

On 2020-07-07 17:54, Philip Jackson wrote: On 07/07/2020 00:52, John Kaufmann wrote: On occasions when I want the Styles and Navigator visible concurrently (that is, if the Style sidebar's own alternative Navigator function does not suffice), I leave Styles on the right sidebar and put

[libreoffice-users] Understanding Character styles "Default Style" and relative font sizes

The root of the hierarchy of Paragraph styles, on which all Paragraph styles are based, is "Default Style". There is also a /Character/ style "Default Style", which /cannot/ be either modified or chosen as the basis of other Character styles; its sole function seems to be, when invoked, to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Linux users might find themselves paying money to use LibreOffice one day

On 2020-07-08 10:41, James Knott wrote: I came across this article: https://betanews.com/2020/07/06/libreoffice-money/ Umm... when you begin this way: "... LibreOffice ... is actually quite good, although Microsoft's Office is far superior." you lose all credibility. [FWIW, in my

Re: [libreoffice-users] Understanding Character styles "Default Style" and relative font sizes

Hi Robert, Thanks so much for answering, but I think you misunderstood the question, which is essentially about the behavior of *Character* styles, not Paragraph styles. I'm sorry if that was not clear. To help correct, I will insert the proper context in the snippet you quoted below, and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Understanding Character styles "Default Style" and relative font sizes

Hi Robert, On 2020-07-09 04:58, Robert Großkopf wrote: ... Also: can someone explain "text-to-text alignment" (Paragraph style Alignment tab)? Try this: Write some Text with Default Style. Copy it for getting some paragraphs. Now set the paragraph Text to Text → Alignment → Top. Mark a word

Re: [libreoffice-users] disappearing graphic caused corruption in document in Writer

On 2020-07-09 11:53, Philip Jackson wrote: Using LO 6.3.5.2 Writer While I was having the recent difficulty with getting graphics to stick in a template, I prepared a short document copy/pasting header and footer graphics into a Writer document as I went along. During this work, there was a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Page number field in Writer

Hi Regina, On 2020-07-09 17:21, Regina Henschel wrote: ... The tool "Offset" has a totally different use case. It is used in letter for the information in the footer, that this page of the letter has a following page. And for this use case it is the correct behavior, that it is empty for the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Understanding Character styles "Default Style" and relative font sizes

Hi Mike, On 2020-07-10 05:51, mikekaganski wrote: (Sent from: http://document-foundation-mail-archive.969070.n3.nabble.com/Users-f1639498.html) ... What you see is clearly a bug. Even two. First is a bug of character styles' relative size. The relative size must evaluate first relative to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Document hierarchy and Indexing [as applied to LO Guides]

Hi Robert, On 2020-06-16 03:38, Robert Großkopf wrote: ... newbies will create all content in one document. So it is no problem to set Level 1 ~ Heading 1 Level 2 ~ Heading 2 Level 3 ~ Heading 3 But if there are separate document for each chapter of a guide you couldn't get a well formed

[libreoffice-users] Document hierarchy and Indexing [as applied to LO Guides]

A confusing difference in presentation models between some LO Guides (Calc, GettingStarted) -- call these "Group A" and others: (Base, Draw, Impress, Writer[*w*]) -- "Group B" prompts: (1) A look at the different ways the hierarchical styles are handled, and (2)

[libreoffice-users] Base/HSQL table with more than two dimensions?

A lectionary is an ordered set of readings, typically using a cycle of three or more years, to cover the Bible. In a four-year cycle the years are simply designated {A,B,C,D}, and for each day in a year readings are prescribed from different parts of the Bible. For any year, storing the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base/HSQL table with more than two dimensions?

On 2020-06-24 06:39, Dave Howorth wrote: ... It should be possible to do a table of three dimensions, of which the third dimension is the year {A,B,C,D} in the cycle, so that one could compare the readings for any given day across all years. But I don't see how to extend tables into three (as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base/HSQL table with more than two dimensions?

On 2020-06-24 08:40, Dan Lewis wrote: A lectionary is an ordered set of readings, typically using a cycle of three or more years, to cover the Bible. In a four-year cycle the years are simply designated {A,B,C,D}, and for each day in a year readings are prescribed from different parts of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Bullets indentation

On 2020-06-10 09:32, sundaresh wrote: Pardon me, but none of those options/buttons indent up indent down etc work. The indentation does not take place at all. I have Libre-Office 6.4 installed. I have taught Microsoft office and even programming in Office, and even developed small applications

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default folder for PDF export

On 2020-06-06 19:12, Pat Brown wrote: Currently, if I select Export as PDF, the default folder is my "documents" folder on the C: drive. This is annoying as I keep having to change it to the folder I need. Is there any way to set it up so that it automatically selects the last folder used? I

[libreoffice-users] Style-dependent variables?

I'm building a fairly complex document -- mostly in Writer, with one Calc and a number of Writer subdocuments, and using Base (for now) to manage tables that supply lists in the master document. There are a lot of alternative sections and conditional text, most controlled by a number of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing 18 labels per sheet on Avery A4 sheet L7161

On 2020-06-08 11:54, Budge wrote: Two questions please. [1] I am using Avery A4 L7161 adhesive labels and have opened using the new>label option which gives me the grid in which to type the text. Having selected font and size I find the print is too close to the edge of the label. How may

[libreoffice-users] What is different about Character styles "%" attribute?

Though I resent the inevitable complications caused by the MS-workalike practice of Paragraph styles containing Font specifications, I had always thought of Character styles as a way to at least mitigate the problem, by defining attributes with respect to the Paragraph style to which they are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Edit contour not working

On 2020-06-11 00:06, John Jason Jordan wrote: ... I have a graphic on a page in Writer. The graphic is about 4cm wide and about 10cm high, so I have aligned it left and set contour to wrap right so that the text will flow down on the right of the graphic. This works, but the text is smashed into

Re: [libreoffice-users] Edit contour not working

On 2020-06-11 17:32, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 20:31:39 +0100 Brian Barker dijo: At 21:06 10/06/2020 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: I have a graphic on a page in Writer. [...] I have aligned it left and set contour to wrap right so that the text will flow down on the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing 18 labels per sheet on Avery A4 sheet L7161

label text field is repeated for all labels on page #4 Right-click in text of first label, select Styles > Edit Style... #5 modify style as desired and click "Apply" button All labels now have the same style applied to the text. Is that what you are trying to do? On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

Hi Brian, Thanks for introducing a fundamental concept that my brain had not yet grasped. As for the details: On 2020-07-20 18:49, Brian Barker wrote: At 16:38 20/07/2020 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote: Documents archived in Project Gutenberg are typically simple text, with each line ending

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

On 2020-07-21 08:57, Philip Jackson wrote: On 21/07/2020 07:16, John Kaufmann wrote: Now I understand the point of AutoCorrect Option "Combine single line paragraphs if length greater than 50%". But how do you "adjust the minimum length of such paragraphs in AutoCorrect Opt

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

On 2020-07-21 09:09, Michael H wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 12:18 AM John Kaufmann wrote: ... You sent me to do something I should have done before asking the question: examine a hex dump of an ODT content.xml file. I see what you mean about "no codes": A paragraph is just a t

[libreoffice-users] Navigator position unstable [Was: Position of caption]

On 2020-07-02 10:22, Philip Jackson wrote: On the original caption question, it's too bad that John Jason Jordan did not respond to your suggestion, ... the only time I cannot access the caption is when the frame which envelopes the image and the caption is highlighted with its little

Re: [libreoffice-users] finding duplicates in a column in Calc

Strange that it wasn't mentioned in the Calc online help. Though it /is/ in Calc Guide CG62. (I have not checked for Calc 7, but presume it will be there.) There are other examples of things missing from both the Guides and Help documentation. It is a reminder to us that FOSS documentation,

[libreoffice-users] If-exist condition for conditional text or section

WordPerfect has a very useful condition for conditional text that must be possible in Writer, but I have not figured out how to implement: How to hide a block or section of text (or frame/figure/table/etc) unless one or more instances of a class (to which that text pertains) exist. Is there a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Fit last column in spreadsheet to print

On 2021-01-10 18:07, Alan B wrote: ... Your initial question was "...see how I can fit the last column in to print on 8/12 x 11..." which to me is equivalent to "fit all columns on a single sheet". So the answer is to set the page width of the printout to one sheet wide. ? Sorry, but I don't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Fit last column in spreadsheet to print

On 2021-01-11 00:45, Brian Barker wrote: At 00:21 11/01/2021 -0500, John Kaufmann wrote: Sorry, but I don't follow: What does it mean for a spreadsheet to print one sheet wide? See "Printing options for page styles" in Chapter 6, "Printing, Exporting, E-mailing, and Signi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Fit last column in spreadsheet to print

On 2021-01-11 01:14, John Kaufmann wrote: On 2021-01-11 00:45, Brian Barker wrote: At 00:21 11/01/2021 -0500, John Kaufmann wrote: Sorry, but I don't follow: What does it mean for a spreadsheet to print one sheet wide? See "Printing options for page styles" in Chapter 6,

[libreoffice-users] LO help communities

This is a meta-question about help for LibreOffice questions. (1) LibreOffice has a comprehensive array of mailing lists @global.libreoffice.org, each of which seems to be reflected and archived in Nabble

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO help communities

On 2021-01-21 06:37, Dave Howorth wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 03:17:38 -0500 John Kaufmann wrote: This is a meta-question about help for LibreOffice questions. (1) LibreOffice has a comprehensive array of mailing lists ... (2) There is another great resource, the AskLibO system <ht

Re: [libreoffice-users] If-exist condition for conditional text or section

am and header footer text. I have been able to shift the footer text outside the defined box to anywhere on the page, but that limits to 1 (or 2) out of stream boxes per page, and the text can't be rotated or shaped. On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 8:56 AM John Kaufmann wrote: WordPerfect has a very usef

Re: [libreoffice-users] If-exist condition for conditional text or section

by changing the value of the variable. There is more information here: https://help.libreoffice.org/3.3/Writer/Hiding_Text <https://help.libreoffice.org/3.3/Writer/Hiding_Text> There are multuple ways of doing what you are looking for, but I believe sections are more flexible. I hope this helps. Rémy.

Re: [libreoffice-users] If-exist condition for conditional text or section

Hi Michael, With the help of Dave Howorth's links to the OpenDocument spec, I just spent a couple hours trying to track down and understand your references, and realize that I am: (a) in over my head (even just to understanding the relevance of the different files organized under v.1.2), and

[libreoffice-users] Re: Meet the 2020 IEEE PES Wanda Reder Pioneer Power Award Recipient

What issychropopular?  Do you meansynchrophasor?-John Kaufmann1-724-433-0459On 2021-01-28 16:00, IEEE Power and Energy Society wrote: #outlook a { padding: 0; }.ReadMsgBody { width: 100%; }.ExternalClass { width: 100%; }.ExternalClass, .ExternalClass p, .ExternalClass span, .ExternalClass

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Meet the 2020 IEEE PES Wanda Reder Pioneer Power Award Recipient

On 2021-01-28 16:47, John Kaufmann wrote: What is sychropopular?  Do you mean synchrophasor? ... My profound apologies to the list for that. I have no idea how this list was added to the distribution of that reply to an (HMTL) mail from IEEE Power and Energy Society. -- To unsubscribe e

[libreoffice-users] Date auto-mangle

LO 6.4.6.2 (x64) Revisiting a 3-year-old document (probably produced in LOW 5.4.x [that information is not in File Properties, where I thought to find it]), I find that Writer now insists on rendering dates in a table in "localized" (m/d/) format -- an action triggered as soon as the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[libreoffice-users] Treating Labels like Envelopes

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

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

[libreoffice-users] Non-breaking dash/hyphen

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).

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

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 The University of Texas at Sa

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

l 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 Subject: [EXTERNAL] [l

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

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.libre

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Autocorrect Problem

Thanks for posting what you found - it led to learning something really useful . On 2021-03-12 00:51, das wrote: (Though no one responded to my mail, I am replying with the solution, for information service.) For around two months I was facing

Re: [libreoffice-users] typing delay?

On 2021-03-17 11:43, Suzie Reedy wrote: I am getting a delay when I type documents in Libre Office. (what appears on the screen is several words behind what I am actually typing). We have other users in our office who are not having this problem. Any ideas on how to fix it? I am using a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Write Closed but Windows 10 won't provide safe to remove flash drive

On 2021-03-07 10:03, Luuk wrote: ... Using openfiles.exe (from Microsoft) you can see which files are open. first you have to enable it using: openfiles /Local ON    (and do a reboot) After that you can

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

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

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

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't see.]

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

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?

s also 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. Eve

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to ask a question on Ask LibreOffice?

Dave, Like Rob, I've never had a problem with the mechanics of asking on AskLibO, but a few weeks ago asked a "meta"-question related to yours ("LO help communities", Jan.21, if you want to look it up in Nabble): How to determine the best place to ask a question. LO has a rich panoply of help

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to ask a question on Ask LibreOffice?

On 2021-02-17 04:06, sophi wrote: Just to let you know, we, at TDF, are working on replacing the Ask forum by Discourse. We have had a test period with the members regularly answering on Ask. If Discourse is not fully replacing a Q forum, it is the most appropriate at the moment and we can

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