Re: [libreoffice-users] calc: method to subdivide individual cells

I've been following this thread and wondering what a use case would be for subdividing cells. On Thursday, February 14, 2013, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-02-14 9:19 AM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 08:50 14/02/2013 -0500, Nobody Noname wrote: ... but it is much more

Re: [libreoffice-users] new version of LO gives gibberish for excel file.

Opens fine on LO 3.6.5. on my mac. Jomali On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:18 AM, David B Teague sr davidbtea...@comporium.net wrote: Hi I just downloaded an excel file from http://www.taxpolicycenter.**org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?**Docid=205http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts

Re: [libreoffice-users] Side notes aka Side titles

Put the side note in a frame. On Monday, March 4, 2013, Farlie A wrote: In a number of reports, and especially in Commonwealth legislation I've encountered side titles, which are a form of sidenote which appears in one of the margins, with the main text content of the document adjusted

Re: [libreoffice-users] Installation options are remembered?

Note that the Java security problems are only applicable to the Java browser plug-in, not to the JRE. You can safely use Java extensions. Just don't install a Java browser plug-in. On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Thomas Becker tbecke...@tin.it wrote: Il 12/05/2013 14.47, Dan Lewis ha

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: no answers to my question

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Just in case anyone thought i was sounding unusually knowledgeable (and about Macs!) all my stuff was in the snipped out bit. It was all Alex and Ken there. I have just had a few days (1hour/day) on a Macbook

Re: [libreoffice-users] 1st steps with a different OS, was: No answers to my question

the MS logo on their 'Windows' key 2. If the police (or some such) will burst into my home and arrest me for scratching that logo out and painting a penguin on. Regards from Tom :) - Forwarded Message - From: jomali jomali3...@gmail.com To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Cc

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base/MySQL Backup??

mysqldump database name filename (with authentication) is the best backup method. You can look up the details in the docs. On Monday, May 27, 2013, Ian Whitfield wrote: Hi All I'm now using the MySQL back-end (5.1.55) with LO Base (3.6.5.2) as my front-end - all on PCLOS 2013. I've been

Re: [libreoffice-users] Horizontal lines (rules) disappeared from Insert menu

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Krunoslav Šebetić kruno0...@gmail.comwrote: I have to insert a horizontal rule to separate document content - but the horizontal rule disappeared from menu. I checked in Help file and it should go like this: Insert Horizontal rule ( plain), but there is no

Re: [libreoffice-users] template menu

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz tho...@s7.dion.ne.jpwrote: Good afternoon The last few days I upgraded from 3.6 something to 4.0.4. And this morning I noticed the template menu is gone. One of my computers has still 3.6 on it and there it is under Files - Templates.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 4.0.3

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Andrew Brown andre...@icon.co.za wrote: And some more info and statics with charts, to refudiate your claims of Windows XP and Vista (the latter also a disaster for MS) of combined market share. http://www.statista.com/**topics/823/microsoft/chart/**

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer

On Friday, August 16, 2013, jack wallen wrote: On 14/08/2013, Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com javascript:; wrote: display graphics, it's not very elegant. I've found that books with anything more than a stream of text create issues for the Kindle. Ultimately, in the end, you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

But Ooo/LO does use structure markup. All .odt/.ods documents are XML files. On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net wrote: Everything that you get from LaTeX: structure markup instead of spaghetti formatting, parameterized formatting, etc... Instead of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base - need to re-point a form

What are you talking about? Of course there is a command line interface to MySQL in Windows. I use it all the time. Just go to Run and type mysql in the Open: box. You'll get a Command prompt with mysql command line ready to go. John On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:23 AM, John Clegg

Re: BUG/FEATURE: Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp, *.ods

snip I believe it is a bug that Impress and Calc won't do text export. Yes, Calc does .csv, but the commas are a problem. A text export should use spaces (if this can be done on the command line then calc works. Impress needs a text export. In Calc: 1. Save As... 2. Choose to save as csv;

Re: BUG/FEATURE: Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp, *.ods

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Trever L. Adams trever.ad...@gmail.comwrote: On 10/20/2012 12:53 PM, jomali wrote: snip I believe it is a bug that Impress and Calc won't do text export. Yes, Calc does .csv, but the commas are a problem. A text export should use spaces (if this can

Re: [libreoffice-users] MariaDB 5.5.33 Now Available

When it includes an OSX installer, I'll consider it. On Wednesday, September 18, 2013, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Another stable release from MariaDb. Last time a few of the BoD slapped my wrists for posting 'irrelevant' and 'off-topic' posts and cited forwarding the last MariaDb

Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting pdf into writer document

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:05 AM, william drescher will...@techservsys.comwrote: I have a pdf file that is 233 pages long. Some is native pdf, other pages are apparently images scanned into the document. Is there any way I can take pages from the pdf and insert them into writer ? win 7

Re: [libreoffice-users] macro to search and replace from a table?

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/10/16 T. R. Valentine trvalent...@gmail.com I want to do a Romanization of a text. What does that mean (sorry if that's a stupid question)? Google (or Bing) is your friend:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open fails, looks like chinese

Works fine for me. How are you trying to import the data? What are the settings on the Text Import Dialog? jomali -- 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] Re: Using_LibreOffice_in_a_Web_Browser

Can't you use LogMeIn.com to do what you want? On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:14 AM, David Lastovicka da...@lastovicka.czwrote: bill william at techservsys.com writes: On 2/23/2013 3:00 PM, Luuk wrote: Not any good answers, and not any bad answers. No answers at all. ;(

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Using_LibreOffice_in_a_Web_Browser

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Kolbjørn Stuestøl kolbjo...@stuestoel.nowrote: Den 12.11.2013 16:47, skreiv jomali: Can't you use LogMeIn.com to do what you want? I am using Dropbox for that purposes. It is free up to a few Gb of storage. Kolbjoern Dropbox != LogMeIn. Dropbox just

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

Once again, Umas, you set up a straw man and demolish him! FOSS means Free and Open Source Software. It doesn't necessarily refer to software created by some pure amateur in his garage. As long as the creator (commercial firm, university or private individual) releases the source at no cost, it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug report -- Libre Ofice version 4.1.3.2 (again)

On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Robert Baker korax1...@gmail.com wrote: Version: 4.1.3.2 Build ID: 70feb7d99726f064edab4605a8ab84 0c50ec57a Libre Office Writer: The ability to draw and erase lines in tables is missing, hence for instance it is not possible (that I know of) to use Writer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Row height inexplicably changes after various innocuous operations

I don't see Default value anywhere on my sheet. Where do you see it? On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:41 AM, whatever document-foundation-mailing-l...@jessemccarthy.net wrote: I previously posted

Re: [libreoffice-users] Query

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Ernest Dale ernest.dal...@gmail.comwrote: I run an important database on Lotus Approach and I have found that Approach will not install on a fresh version of Windows. To surmount the problem I have downloaded Libre Office and attempted to transfer the database

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Connect Base to External HSQLDB

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: snip Hey Alex, So what you are saying is that I can create a LO Base DB that references tables stored in the standalone HSQLDB database with the JDBC connector, and use that .odb file as a back end to another LO Base

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Connect Base to External HSQLDB

). John On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Alex Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.comwrote: On 11/03/2014 13:23, jomali wrote: Hi John, I think your confusion lies in equating an .odb file with an Access database. The .odb file never contains the data. It is a sort of registry that points

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MSO for iPad, big deal or big yawn

Note that the Android app is free only for home use. A business use requires an Office 365 account. I have no idea how they check on how it is used, though. Jomali On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Ra ravi...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently it is. Has been for a few days now. :) https

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mac Upgrade error?

I was running 4.1.6 and just downloaded 4.2.3. I opened the DMG, dragged the file to the Applications folder and opened it on an oder document. It worked fine, so I would recommend you do the same. On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Phil skegg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys Im running OSX 10.6.8,

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Navigator and MS .doc files containing Section Breaks

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I need to review a .doc document that was created in MS Word 2007. This document contains both Page breaks and Section breaks. While I can get the Navigator in LO to GOTO the next page - how can I get

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Real Usenet newsgroups

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:38 PM, dave boland dbola...@fastmail.fm wrote: This is why I r e a l l y think that it is time to go to regular newsgroups -- a lot less fussing for the user. I have been on the gmane sight twice, and I still don't see how to subscribe. It is not worth the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: deleting hard returns

like (including nothing). There is no way I've ever found in OOo or LO to use ^p in the search field. ^p works in every version of MSO I've tried, but not in LO. I verified what I'm saying by actually trying it in LO 3.4.3 jomali On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Bob Houston bob_hous

[libreoffice-users] Yippee!

What a nice present http://www.ladonnawest.com/inf.php?Christmas Hope u enjoy it! -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph format problem

it with QQQ (or some other unlikely to occur character sequence), then doing a find and replace of single hard returns, replacing them with nothing, then doing a find and replace on QQQ, replacing the placeholder characters with hard returns. It's a lot of manual work, but it works. jomali On Thu, Feb 9

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database or spreadsheet

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.comwrote: On 12/02/2012 23:25, Jay Lozier wrote: On 02/12/2012 06:09 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/12/2012 01:52 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 08/02/2012 12:57, James Knott wrote: Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base - Phone book ?

Where do you get that idea? You can create a database using a calc document as your data source and create queries and forms and reports as you would with any other data source. Your only restriction is that you can't do data entry, so any changes have to be made in Calc. On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at

Re: [libreoffice-users] fyi Fw: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB 5.5.21 beta now available

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) MariaDb is to MySql as LibreOffice is to OpenOffice except that MySql is still owned by Oracle. Regards from Tom :) Not quite. LibreOffice is going in the direction of being completely independent of

Re: [libreoffice-users] libre office and microsoft office access

Not if you're using a Mac. On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) MariaDb could presumably be used instead of MySql or is it important to support Oracle? Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 5/4/12, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dan

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to edit words and phrases in a pdf

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Normally when i open a pdf document in LibreOffice each line of text seems to be contained in it's own text-box which i can then move around or perhaps delete but i can't seem to edit the words inside the line,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: IPad?

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Am 02.05.2012 23:38, Mark Stanton wrote: Is there a LO for the iPad? Mark Apple does not allow free software on that platform. On the contrary. There are many free apps for the iPad. However, creating a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: IPad?

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:33 AM, The Wolfkin wolf...@gmail.com wrote: i think i wasn't quite clear on this.. but my annoyance wasn't with people using Word. I get that. Believe me I fully understand how complicated it is for people to change the file format. My annoyance was with MS for making

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: IPad?

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.comwrote: At 08:50 10/05/2012 -0400, Jomali Noname wrote: I just open the .docx in LibO, manipulate it in LibO, save it as .odt and send it back to them as .doc. They never notice, and then it's a .doc forever

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: File corruption on OSX and LO 4252

I am working with OSX 10.9.4 I just created a test writer document in 4.2.4.2, saved it to a FAT-32 fomatted memory stick, opened it in 4.2.5.2, made some modifications and re-saved it. I then opened it in 4.2.5.2. It opened flawlessly. I don't have a FAT-32 USB hard drive to test it on, but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base questions

Actually, it's just as easy to use Access as a front end to external DBMS' as it is to use Base. As long as an ODBC driver is available and registered in Windows, the external database looks like the native database. Just as in Base, the features of the external DBMS have to be exposed by the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

Joel, The NumberOfBooksByAuthor and ReadBooksByAuthor fields are unnecessary. They can be derived from a simple query for a report. Since there has to be a one-to-one relation between the ReadStatus table and the BookInformation table, you might as well merge them. When you do merge them, a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Turn Off All Automated Functions

It's sad that you went to all that trouble. The only thing you had to do was to learn that, when the automatic correction was made was to immediately hit Ctrl-z (or Cmd-z on a Mac) or Edit-Undo to reverse the automatic change. Had you consulted the Help, you would have found this under Autocorect

Re: [libreoffice-users] Making horizontal lines in Writer

My preferred way to insert horizontal lines is to insert a right tab after the explanatory text, format the tab with a bottom border, and move it to the place I want the line to end. The tab position and formatting hold for subsequent paragraphs, so you can make as many new lines as you need. When

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tab defaults change when pasting into Writer from some other applications

I can't say I agree with Virgil. You can't help working with styles. Whenever you create a document, the default set of styles is automatically applied. When you create a numbered or bulleted list, you are applying the associated styles automatically. The other styles (e.g., heading styles) are

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Writer - Bold activates by itself

You have to realize that ODF uses an xml-based markup system, not a formatting codes system, as Wordperfect did. When you apply a bold style to a snippet of text, you are essentially creating a markup (greatly simplified) span style=boldsnippet/span. When you change the style to normal, you are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tab defaults change when pasting into Writer from some other applications

Couldn't be simpler. Simply create a personal template containing your personal default styles and save a new default template for styles you want all users on that machine to use. See https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Changing_the_Default_Template to see how to do it. John On Wed, Nov 5, 2014

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

Sorry, Tom, that is plain text, just like HTML is plain text. Yes, it contains special codes, but it does not contain anything but plain ASCII characters. On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) I'm really not getting plain text. When i right-click and open

Re: [libreoffice-users] ODS question

If the 2015 file is not yet populated, I would simply duplicate the 2014 file, rename the duplicate to 2015 and then delete any extraneous content in the renamed duplicate. If the 2015 file is populated, I would open both files, and, one by one, select the sheet i want to copy and use the

Re: [libreoffice-users] What is the current best ODF editing Android Package?

If you are satisfied with the capabilities of Google documents, you can download Google Docs for Android and - Create new documents or edit any that were created on the web or on another device. - Share documents and work together with others in the same document at the same time. - Open, edit,

Re: [libreoffice-users] compatibility with Microsoft Access

It depends on what you mean by coding and what the requirements of the course are. If she is to be coding in VBA, only Access will do. If she will be required to use Access on tests, only Access wil do. Even the SQL that Access uses has some differences from the SQL used in Base, since Base does

Re: [libreoffice-users] No releases of my extension on the LO extension site

Save it as Flat XML ODF document (Text or other). You will get an unzipped XML document that will open in LibreOffice like a zipped file, but can be opened in a text editor to view or edit the contents. On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:02 AM, X Roemer x-roe...@web.de wrote: Hi, I'm the author of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 5.0 Review Rating | PCMag.com

When I click the link in either Chrome or Firefox, I go to a Libreoffice 5.0 review dated August 17, 2015. On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Mike Scott m...@scottsonline.org.uk wrote: On 19/08/15 12:07, James Knott wrote: On 08/18/2015 04:24 PM, zed wrote: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Vertical Ruler

Works fine for me (LO 5.0.3.2 on OS X El Capitan) On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Joe Conner wrote: > Thanks for your speedy reply. > > Unfortunately, the check box at Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice Writer -> > View: panel; check-box for "Vertical ruler" and combo box

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: question about the best version of libreoffice - MY God is better!

Please note that the original message by Nasrin was on a topic germane to this list. One member with an excessively tender sore spot objected to something in Nasrin's signature that expressed his sincerely held faith. There was no intent on Nasrin's part to proselytize or to demean another's

Re: [libreoffice-users] anyone knows how to find/replace not-printable glyphs?

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2016, Remy Gauthier wrote: > > If you need to search and replace paragraph marks and others, you can >> use AltSearch (http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/alter >>

Re: [libreoffice-users] about libreoffice and tables:

Since you have contact with the originator of the document, and he/she sent you a modified document, why don't you ask them to send you the document in .doc format? It should open flawlessly. On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 8:56 AM, nasrin khaksar wrote: > hi every one. > one

Re: [libreoffice-users] about libreoffice and tables:

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 12:38 PM, nasrin khaksar wrote: > hi. > because docx is compress format and needs less space. > for this reason, they send me all documents in docx format. > > So have them save as doc format and zip them, sending you the zip file! -- To

Re: [libreoffice-users] Double Underline in Calc

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: > Using LO vers 4.2.8.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 > > If I go Format Cells--> Line Styles --> double underline all I see in the > cells I am trying to format is a thick dark line. > > Is there a way to fix this? > > Regards, Jim >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Website security and encryption

That's odd. When I log on to Libreoffice.com, I use (e.g) https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/, which is, of course, encrypted. On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Eric Scherer wrote: > I'm amazed and surprised none of your webpages -- including the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Strange line spacing

Sorry for top posting, but I didn't have a reply to the post, except to say that I tried to reproduce your problem on LO 5.2.2.2 on MacOS and couldn't get the behavior you describe using any combination of order of entering and formatting characters. Perhaps if you describe your sequence of steps

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fontworks, how to change font

I just tried Dave's method, and it worked flawlessly (LO 5.2.6.2 on Mac OSX). On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: > > > On 09/06/17 00:01, Dave wrote: > >> On 08.06.2017 12:41, Steve Edmonds wrote: >> >>> Hi. >>> Trying to imitate a layout from MS

Re: [libreoffice-users] copy function not working

I just did exactly what you described, using a document in a text editor and LO 6.0.1.1 on a Mac, and the copy-paste from the text editor to LO worked perfectly. The second text selected was the text pasted the second time. I can only conclude that there is something wrong with your personal

Re: [libreoffice-users] can't prevent Calc from modifying the number I type into a column

You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how spreadsheets work. When you enter a number into a numeric cell, the software converts it into an internal format, which it then displays in the format you specify for the cell. It does not remember the form in which you entered it. Thus,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

I don't remember the details of the sxw format. Perhaps reveal codes were appropriate then. However, ODF files have a complex SGML or HTML or XML type format, along with a form of CSS, unlike WordPerfect and similar programs, which used embedded code to delineate format changes. That is, there are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Word counting in LO Writer

A simple experiment shows that LO writer considers a new word to have begun when any character occurs after a whitespace character. Do you disagree with this algorithm? I certainly don't. It's straightforward, easy to understand and unambiguous. On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 3:36 PM Dave Howorth

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress Remote

If you click the links at the bottom of the guide page, you will go right to the "LibreOffice Impress Remote" page on the Google Play Store or "LibreOffice Remote for Impress" page for iOS. On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 12:56 PM John Kaufmann wrote: > Since the latest update, I have left on "Show

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with find & replace.

I just looked at LibreOffice help, searched for Regular Expressions, selected the list of regular expressions, and found all of the info you are looking for.. On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 5:55 PM Dave Barton wrote: > > Fantastic, but why does the LO project *_NOT_* inform it's users about > this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: Draw and Writer

Open the jpeg in Google Photos and use its OCR capabilities to produce a text file which you can then edit in Writer. On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 4:36 AM Kenneth Groninga < winema...@eaglecitywinery.com> wrote: > -- Forwarded message - > From: Kenneth Groninga > Date: Tue, Oct 24,