Re: [libreoffice-users] LO for Chrome OS - i.e. Samsung Chrome Book

2014-04-19 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) From the Portable Apps http://portableapps.com/ http://portableapps.com/about/what_is_a_portable_app As far as I'm aware, the Portable Apps builds only run on Windows. From the above link (http://portableapps.com/about/what_is_a_portable_app): A portable app is a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-19 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Tom Davies wrote: Anyone continuing to use Internet Explorer deserves whatever they get now more than ever. In what way does Heartbleed affect IE users any more than others? Heartbleed is a bug in server-side software, and affects anyone using affected sites regardless of their browser. In

Re: [libreoffice-users] Why new page style after manual page break changes all pages?

2014-04-21 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Sean Darcy wrote: On 04/21/2014 08:55 AM, Kevin O'Brien wrote: Got caught by that misconfigured reply again.g And yes: I've also been hit by misconfigured reply! I think it's working as intended: - Reply goes to the original sender - Reply to List goes to the mailing list - Reply

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-21 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Ah, sorry, I'd missed that connection. I see what you mean, not that IE is inherently more at risk, but that this tool to flag potential problems isn't available for it. It seems strange that Netcraft release this tool, but exclude a large number of users who could probably do with it! Mark.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mailing List Config [Was: Why new page style after manual page break changes all pages?]

2014-04-21 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
The way this list is set up seems to be considered the correct way, e.g.: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22reply+to+list%22 http://david.woodhou.se/reply-to-list.html http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Lists set up for reply to go to the list make it very difficult if you

Re: [libreoffice-users] paste into the edit box

2014-04-22 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
John R. Sowden wrote: why can't I right click on paste to paste text into the edit box instead of having to go to the edit--paste drop down menu? I assume you're referring to the input line (where you can type formulas etc.) in Calc? Being another one who avoids the mouse whenever possible,

Re: [libreoffice-users] paste into the edit box

2014-04-23 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
John R. Sowden wrote: re: alternatives, this is how I use it-might apply to others: Pay credit card on line Copy verification number from web site paste verification number to an empty cell change font from not free sans to free sans copy updated cell with verification number (cannot add to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Remove Properties and Personal Information

2014-04-28 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Joe B wrote: Hello list, I am having difficulty getting the Remove Properties and Personal Information link to work on the PropertiesDetails tab for a specific file that I would like to remove all personal information from When I click this link, I get a pop up box that that has two radio

Re: [libreoffice-users] List-reply issues... again

2014-04-28 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Paul wrote: ... But a while back I noticed that for someone I was replying to, the reply button addressed the reply to the person, and not the list. I can't remember who (or even when exactly) this was, but it was not the normal behavior. In that case I picked it up before sending the message,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Upgrade Problem on Windows

2014-04-28 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
James E Lang wrote: 4.0.4.2 - 4.1.5.3 After performing a cleanup on the volume there is only 207MB available on C: on a Windows XP system on which I'm working. After I specified that LO be installed on volume D: the installer still requires 427MB on C:. I hesitate to compress volume C:.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: keyboard shortcut to navigate tables and now labels

2014-05-01 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Ruth Ann wrote: Ctrl+R,L,U orD cursor movements seem to advance from cell to cell in a Writer table, rather than word to word as in a paragraph. Ctrl+Home takes you to first table cell. Ctrl+End Ctrl+End takes you to the last cell. Thank you, Stuart, that does indeed work. Except I found that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Deleting a Table in Impress

2014-05-17 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
CVAlkan wrote: Hi: Someone asked me offline (or is that back channel?) to provide examples of what I meant by my comments regarding Impress. I think the implication was that these were unfair rants. Maybe just that others here can help resolve or work around specific issues, but can't help

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Option to output the .ods underlying XML files auto formatted?

2014-05-18 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Italo Vignoli wrote: On 18/05/14 11:30, Urmas wrote: The XML files by LO are consisting of one long line deliberately to hamper interoperation with a certain well-known competitor products. As a marketing decision, it is unlikely to change. This has definitely not been a marketing decision.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spell Check Dictionary

2014-05-23 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
On 05/22/2014 12:10 PM, Urmas wrote: Kracked_P_P---webmaster: There are 797866 lines in the .dic file with the top one the number of words. Due to the author's error, it is shipped unmunched. In the proper form it contains 476898 entries, probably even less if some wordforms are missing.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Pagination Problem

2014-06-03 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
PeeWee's response describes how to get a page number in the header or footer. To get the first page of the document to be numbered 3: 1. Click in the first paragraph of the document. 2. Go to Format Paragraph Text flow. 3. In the Breaks section, tick Insert, select Page type and position

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office 3.6.2.2 - downloads

2014-06-27 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Hi Charles, Just the two I mentioned as far as I know: LibO_3.6.6.2_Win_x86_install_multi.msi LibO_3.6.6.2_Win_x86_helppack_en-US.msi Try those to start with and let us know if you have any problems. Run the main installer first, then the helppack installer. I'm not certain what the

Re: [libreoffice-users] problema con campo número de página

2014-11-05 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Francisco Corredera wrote: Hi Writer When I insert the Page Number field, the text Page Number is inserted, not the numeric digit corresponding to the page. The same applies to the field Total Pages which brings me back is the text Statistics Number of Page Page Number Total Pages Statistics

Re: [libreoffice-users] outline numbering

2014-11-08 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Virgil Arrington wrote: I've used LO and its predecessors for about 15 years now. I recently noticed that the dialog boxes for outline numbering have changed. In the past, under the position tab for outline numbering, the numbering position was determined by settings such as width of numbering

Re: [libreoffice-users] outline numbering

2014-11-11 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Virgil Arrington wrote: On 11/08/2014 11:12 AM, libreoffice-ml.mbourne wrote: Are all the documents (old and new) in ODF Text (.odt) format? Or are the older ones in Word (.doc) or OpenOffice 1.0 (.sxw) format? I'm wondering if the options shown depend on the format of the document. Both

Re: [libreoffice-users] Search key working intermittently for values

2014-12-20 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
WEDLOCO wrote: Hi there I recently downloaded Libre Office to replace Open Office on my Mac. All previously created documents now open with Libre Office - obviously. I am having problem with the Search Key Function in my spreadsheets. I am using it to find amounts. It seems to work 2 or 3

Re: [libreoffice-users] problems downloading and donating

2014-12-22 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
I sent this response yesterday, but it doesn't seem to have made it through to the list... apologies if it ends up duplicated. Spencer Graves wrote: I just had problems downloading the latest version of LiberOffice to a Windows 7 machine and donating to The Document Foundation. DOWNLOAD

Re: [libreoffice-users] Search key working intermittently for values

2014-12-22 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
I sent this response yesterday, but it doesn't seem to have made it through to the list... apologies if it ends up duplicated. Thanks for confirming that this is the problem, and that the workaround works. I'll see about checking if this still happens in the latest version and filing an

Re: [libreoffice-users] problems downloading and donating

2014-12-22 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Mark Bourne wrote: Spencer Graves wrote: PROBLEMS DONATING: I tried to “Donate via Credit Card”. This seemed to do 2 things: 1. It referred me to ConCardis, which said, “Sorry, no payment method is active. 1” I could not get past that. I can confirm I see the same thing using both

Re: [libreoffice-users] Saving Impress Templates

2014-12-22 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Kevin O'Brien wrote: What I am seeing is that when I am in Impress and go to Save as Templates--Save As Template, the window that opens only has one tab, Documents, and not the four tabs I am used to seeing (Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Drawings). The four tabs in File New

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Writer] cant insert unicode with ctrl+shift+u

2014-12-24 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Alexandros Prekates wrote: ctrl+shift+u wont work in writer 4.2.6 in my debian system but it'll work in other applications . What do you expect it to do? Most keyboard shortcuts are handled separately by each application, although there are common conventions for some (such as Ctrl+C for

Re: [libreoffice-users] uncontrolled printing on HP Officejet Pro L7780

2014-12-28 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Rogier F. van Vlissingen wrote: Most of the time when printing from LO, I get multiple copies, and I have to manually abort printing. At one point I thought it might be a printer problem, but it does not happen when I print from Adobe Reader or other applications, only from LO Does anyone have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Google Sheets QUERY and Calc equivalent

2014-12-31 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Marc Paré wrote: Is there an equivalent Calc function for the Google Sheets function QUERY? When I downloaded my spreadsheet from Google Sheets as a Calc file, the QUERY function was not translated into an equivalent Calc function. What does that function to do? From a quick search:

Re: [libreoffice-users] SOLVED: ODS question

2015-01-02 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Fred James wrote: OS: Mageia 4, 64bit (if that makes a difference?) LibreOffice: 4.1.6.2 I have two separate ODS files: 2014 and 2015 I want to copy a sheet (the entire sheet) from 2014 to 2015. Is this possible, and if so, what is the recommended method? Actually, there are a few sheets I

Re: [libreoffice-users] BASIC StrComp and tricky Unicode for example) SOLVED

2015-01-03 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Yep, it pulls the value from the application language settings, so that if I set that to Turkish for the application, I can test in Turkish. Print StrComp(ı, I, 0) ' compare Turkish dotless i with upper case i Print StrComp(i, I, 0) ' compare lower case i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Scaling x-axis on chart

2015-01-15 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Budgie wrote: On 13/01/15 21:03, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 13.01.2015 um 13:00 schrieb Budgie: Hi Tom, Thanks for the reply. No joy so far. The problem is expanding the x axis which is using dates. It is set up for date format but I cannot find how to expand the scale. I have a screen shot

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc fails to warn when insert cell breaks sum(A1:A2)

2015-02-12 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Brian Barker wrote: At 12:14 12/02/2015 -0800, Spencer Graves wrote: I recently noticed that a complicated spreadsheet that had previously functioned correctly was giving wrong answers without warning. After the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth, I traced the problem to a cell containing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Romove all pictures

2015-02-12 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Emil Payne wrote: There are times when I copy paste from websites to Calc. Things like lists of TV stations or Twitter followers. When I do so it also captures all the images and pastes them to the document. This causes a big mess since most of the images cover each other and do not align

Re: [Bulk] Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice 4.4.0.2 on opensuse 13.2 tumbleweed, kde 4.14.4

2015-01-27 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
ianseeks wrote: On Monday 26 Jan 2015 19:18:24 Tim Lloyd wrote: Hi Ian, I am assuming this is an existing document. Not new? Any document in particular or any? An exisitng ODT, nothing complicated in the file, just text Is the CTRL-C the first thing you do? Highlight with mouse then

[libreoffice-users] Cancelling posts from non-subscribed address?

2015-01-27 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Does anyone know of a way to cancel posts sent from a non-subscribed address to this list? I sometimes accidentally post from the wrong address, realise my mistake, and repost from the subscribed address. It would be handy to cancel the original post to avoid a duplicate (and exposing my main

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printing from Linux, Kubuntu/Ubuntu

2015-01-27 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
marianne-x wrote: Phillip Jordan should be plenty embarrassed when/if he figures out what he is doing that he is not telling us. He says he is downloading all 13,238k of LibreOffice 4.2. My download of 4.2.8.2 last night was of 215,400 kb, plus 5432 kb for the helppack, so of course nothing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-30 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
charles.schulz wrote: Hello, On 30 janvier 2015 11:50:02 CET, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: Charles-H. Schulz: that either Windows 8.1 or some setting peculiar to some systems create a very bad experience when installing software... It is LO misconfigured Apache server which assigns

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-30 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Mike Scott wrote: On 30/01/15 19:41, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: It looks like I was a bit quick to blame IE. It turns out it's 1 of the 3 mirrors in the UK which is misbehaving. Doesn't affect other browsers, as they seem to just use the .msi extension from the download URI,

Re: [libreoffice-users] got libre

2015-01-30 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
That depends what he meant by arrived, and on his connection speed. I get about 2-3Mbps, and downloading the LibreOffice installer did take around 15 minutes yesterday. Which is to be expected of a ~200MB download at that sort of speed. Some browsers give very little indication while a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-30 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
It looks like I was a bit quick to blame IE. It turns out it's 1 of the 3 mirrors in the UK which is misbehaving. Doesn't affect other browsers, as they seem to just use the .msi extension from the download URI, whereas IE uses the Content-Type header returned by the server and changes the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Scaling x-axis on chart

2015-01-25 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Budgie wrote: Hi Mark, Now I am making progress and dragging does expand what I need. Many thanks. That's great. I had expected to be able to do it by scaling the axes but what I have now will serve. One supplementary question. At present the key for the various symbols used in the chart

Re: [libreoffice-users]

2015-02-13 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Kim Maass wrote: PLEASE TAKE ME OFF OF ALL OF YOUR LISTS! THANK YOU. At the bottom of every message you receive from the list is the following: To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Most of us receiving your message are just other users, and have no control

Re: [libreoffice-users] Program Abort - Service Manager not available

2015-01-04 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Dr. Jim Ishler wrote: When I try to start LibrOffice I get an error that the program cannot be started. It says the service manager is not available. Premature end of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Instability with LO 4.1.2

2015-03-10 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
david_lynch wrote: I upgraded from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 this week (on Windows 8). I have a fairly complex spreadsheet that worked well on 4.1.1. In 4.1.2: Whenever I try to add a column, Calc crashes with an unexpected error (no further detail). I can recover the file and usually a second attempt

Re: [libreoffice-users] Test - Please ignore

2015-03-26 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
And I've sent two other test messages which have been denied by the list (not just not seen, but had a response from the list server saying they're denied). I'm trying various combinations to track it down. I'm looking at what is actually arriving at another address subscribed to the list, so

[libreoffice-users] Test - Please ignore

2015-03-26 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
My emails to the list are being rejected. Trying an alternative client... Mark. -- 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:

[libreoffice-users] Test - Please ignore

2015-03-26 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Testing with alternative client and name in To: header. Mark. -- 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://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-29 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Microsoft do seem to make things difficult... First their web browser changes the .msi extension to .man, which their operating system doesn't understand, and then their file browser hides the extension making it difficult to correct! That has come up on this list before, and your earlier

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [Calc] Relative references behavior for worksheets

2015-04-22 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Ady wrote: Having sheets named Sheet1, Sheet2, Sheet3 etc. any reference from Sheet2 to Sheet1 or from Sheet3 to Sheet2 refers to the _previous_ sheet. When you copy this reference to the first sheet, then there is no previous sheet which is why you get #REF!.X1 Any absolute reference to

Re: [libreoffice-users] CALC

2015-04-19 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Brian Barker wrote: At 11:07 19/04/2015 -0400, Rob All Jr wrote: While I'm working in calc, the program is frequently adding a colon followed by a number (usually 2 sometimes 3) at the end of the file name (i.e. after the 'xlsx'). What's that all about? You say it adds a colon and number at

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Editing Calc styles: returning to a default

2015-04-19 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
martin f krafft wrote: Hi Andreas, thanks for taking your time to respond. also sprach Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de [2015-04-15 17:44 +0200]: Not sure if I understand what you're after. The [Standard] button on the style editor dialog resets all attributes to the attribute values of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] HIGHLIGHTING IN WRITER

2015-05-05 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
roballjr wrote: I'm using 4.4.22. The highlighting function is almost totally unreliable. Whether I use the F8 key or just try to use the mouse button, it takes two or three passes to get highlighting of more than several letters to hold long enough to cut or copy. This is a real pain if you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Heads up -- LibreOffice 5.0 is on the horizion

2015-04-14 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
toki kantoor wrote: On April 13, 2015 7:31:03 AM PDT, V Stuart Foote wrote: jonathon wrote For some of us, those thumbnails are a security flaw. And all cleared with a single menu button click. So, it never has been a flaw--rather as designed Even with the ability to clear with a single

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installation version chaos

2015-04-17 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Getting a little off-topic, but... Even more confusingly for Windows users, in some contexts on Windows *.* matches all files, even those without any extension at all (similarly, libreoffice*.* would match all files starting libreoffice, even if they don't contain a dot or extension). I think

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4.4. crashes reliably on a column sort

2015-04-17 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Tom Cloyd wrote: http://www.trauma-dissociation.net/misc/_DayPlanner-2015_testpage.ods The file above is a single sheet from a much larger file I use multiple times every day of my life. It will allow replication of the problem. (For some reason, it downloads as read-only, so save a copy and us

Re: [libreoffice-users] Please confirm Calc bug - discontiguous selection of rows, right-click is very slow

2015-04-17 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
LibreOffice 4.4.2.2 on Windows Vista 32 bit. Using a new, empty sheet. It only seems to happen with rows, not columns. Or at least, if it does happen with columns, more need to be selected before the delay becomes noticeable. With rows 1, 3, 5, etc. for a total of 7 selected, the delay was

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office 4.2.0 as windows service on windows server 2008 R2 Server Issue

2015-04-17 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Anil Wale wrote: Hi Support Team, We are trying to setup Libre Office as windows service on windows server 2008 R2 Server, using following entry on regedit, but after this service not get started. C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\program\ soffice.exe -headless -nofirststartwizard

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: default writer template please?

2015-04-06 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Dave Stevens wrote: Quoting V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu: Yes, have a look at the status bar, bottom edge right. It sounds like you have placed your Writer View layout into Book view mode, two pages as in an open book--odd on right, evens on left (in RTL). Select one of the other

Re: [libreoffice-users] Functions in Calc 4.4.2.2

2015-04-10 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Piet van Oostrum wrote: edo1 wrote: I hate to ask this, since I thought of myself as pretty competent in Calc. But here goes: I can't run even the simplest functions in the spreadsheet. E.g, =3-2 shows up in the designated cell as a text string =3-2 rather than the digit 1. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc: How to concat CTRL+ENTER to a string?

2015-04-10 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
James E Lang - jim+...@lang.hm wrote: On a Windows platform I use CHAR(13)CHAR(10) [CR+LF] instead of just CHAR(10) [LF] which I use on a Linux platform or just CHAR(13) [CR] which I would expect to use on a MAC platform Those are the conventions for plain text files on those systems.

Re: [libreoffice-users] How do I collapse the common fractions in Writer?

2015-06-30 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
MR ZenWiz wrote: I have been searching for this and I can't seem to find the right setting. I have three or four installations of LO on various computers. On some of them, LO Writer automatically converts 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4 into the symbols for such (½ ¼ ¾). On others, the letters remain

Re: [libreoffice-users] How do I collapse the common fractions in Writer?

2015-06-30 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Kolbjørn Stuestøl wrote: Den 30.06.2015 22:33, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com skreiv: Personally, I disable using the replacement table because it gets in the way when I don't want the replacement to happen, e.g. when entering dates: - 1/1 gives 1st January of the current year, as

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Compatible Outliner

2015-07-25 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
H - age...@meddatainc.com wrote: Also, can someone explain to me why a reply to messages here - unless you reply all - goes to the individual posting the original message? Defeats the purpose of a mailing list, does it not? In my opinion, the reply should ONLY be to the mailing list - as it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail Merge - Labels

2015-10-29 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Stan Grigiski wrote: Hello, I noticed that when I try to mail merge a data base for labels, the program will not supress a field if there is no entry; it will create a space on the lable. For example, if I have the field "address 1" set for street number and street name and the field "address

Re: [libreoffice-users] writer-how to delete a carriage return in a cell of a table

2015-11-14 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
yahoo-pier_andreit wrote: on my PC=Dell latitude E6510, RAM=8Gb, GPU=GT218 NVS 3100M, CPU=i7 Q 720 @ 1.60GHz, OS=opensuse 13.2 KDE= 4.14.9 with libreoffice Version: 5.0.3.1 Build ID: 00m0(Build:1) Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8) I have a table with 2 columns and about 10 rows and I cannot delete

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
marianne-x wrote: A minor tale of woe: I have been trying for years to convince a young lady friend to break away from slavish dependence upon Micro$oft, and at least give LO, et. al,, a try. Her Curtains machine, running on Vista, finally got so clogged with untraceable trash that a complete

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: lost opportunity

2015-11-07 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Urmas - davian...@gmail.com wrote: 05.11.2015 23:19, Tom Davies: For some weird reason IE decided to rename the downloads from ".msi" to another format. That 'weird reason' was the error in the default webserver configuration which no one of LO people cared to fix. When that problem

Re: [libreoffice-users] LEBRE VERSION STILL

2015-11-05 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Philip Jackson wrote: On 05/11/15 04:21, Steve Edmonds wrote: I use an external PDF writer for some documents where LO fails to convert vector formats correctly. That said, if I use the external converter I loose all my cross referencing and TOC links that LO does very well in my opinion. Steve

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Tooo many messages on this mailing list?? How to avoid being swamped ...

2015-10-16 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Personally, I'd say the bug is with the likes of Outlook and GMail, for relying on an unreliable analysis of the subject line instead of using (or even inserting) the headers intended specifically for threading messages! But good luck getting anything done about them... There's nothing the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tooo many messages on this mailing list?? How to avoid being swamped ...

2015-10-16 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
anne-ology wrote: very interesting, indeed. And has me curiously wondering ... are you saying that by clicking on 'forward' then changing the 'Fw'/'Fwd' in the subject line to 'Re' breaks this coding in some e-programs ??? ;-o For someone reading mail using a mail

Re: [libreoffice-users] Threading

2015-10-16 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
James E Lang wrote: This reply is being sent from my Android phone using MailDroid. I don't think it'll break threading except in receiving clients that use the subject for threading like Pegasus Mail for Windows does. Yep, your reply has the in-reply-to: and references: headers, and appears

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tooo many messages on this mailing list?? How to avoid being swamped ...

2015-10-15 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Mike Scott wrote: On 15/10/15 16:00, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) +1 to everyone so far :)) Thanks Anne-ology! :) I get the impression that some email-clients, maybe Thunderbird, ignores the words in the subject line and uses something from the coding in the headers (which are usually hidden).

Re: [libreoffice-users] copying text with formatting from a web page

2015-10-20 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Gary Collins wrote: I've just tried this in firefox. A couple of things: 1) access to the file save option seems to be indirect - but maybe there is a way to customise this, I haven't got time to check at the moment; but 2) much more importantly - it does indeed save as a single file, but the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Shortcut changes

2015-10-18 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
James E. Lang wrote: I am not a user of Base but I am a frequent user of Calc. Shortcut changes are extremely disruptive for users. My least favorite (most detested!!) such change occurred in version 4.4 of Calc when Alt+E,I was assigned to a brand new menu item in place of "Fill." That one

Re: [libreoffice-users] Shortcut changes

2015-10-18 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
James E Lang wrote: -Original Message- From: libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 6:40 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Shortcut changes James E. Lang wrote: I am not a user of Base but I am a frequent user of Calc. Shortcut

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in Impress and file dialogue choice

2015-10-11 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Mike Scott wrote: On 09/10/15 20:24, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Mike Scott wrote: On 09/10/15 12:43, Malcolm Moore wrote: ... This is outstandingly horrible ! Yes. My summary for anyone in the same boat suffering from brain failure at the end of the week: . It

Re: [libreoffice-users] Outline Numbering

2015-10-06 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Virgil Arrington wrote: I'm beginning to think there is a definite bug here. I just renamed my user profile, and opened a brand new document using the default template. I then experimented with the following steps. Step 1: I setup three outline styles. I then typed the name of the styles and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in Impress

2015-10-09 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Mike Scott wrote: On 09/10/15 12:43, Malcolm Moore wrote: ... This is outstandingly horrible ! Yes. My summary for anyone in the same boat suffering from brain failure at the end of the week: . It will then work for the duration of the session as A3 and Landscape are now selected (

Re: [libreoffice-users] anchoring frame to character - problems positioning

2015-09-04 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Mike Scott wrote: I've been banging my head against this one off and on for quite a while, and either I'm totally misunderstanding what's supposed to happen, or there's a problem in LO. I'd appreciate advice please. The goal is to print music lyrics with chord (text) appropriately aligned above

Re: [libreoffice-users] multiple column calc sort makes LO quit

2015-09-04 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Guy Voets wrote: Hello, LO 5 looks fine and evrything seems to work fine too. But... I regularly do a sort on multiple colums (with headers) in Calc: C, G and F. LO stumbles and quits systematically on this request. Any ideas? Someone reported a similar problem with LibreOffice 4.4 a few

Re: [libreoffice-users] OS hangs while visiting a LO wiki page

2015-09-15 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Ady Ady wrote: Hello Users of LibreOffice, Once in a while I visit the Release Plan wiki page, https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan From that wiki page, I recently tried to visit the "5.0.2" -> "RC1" page (more than once), but my OS hangs when I click on the relevant link. Of

Re: [libreoffice-users] OS hangs while visiting a LO wiki page

2015-09-16 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Tom Williams wrote: On 09/15/2015 01:43 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Ady Ady wrote: Hello Users of LibreOffice, Once in a while I visit the Release Plan wiki page, https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan From that wiki page, I recently tried to visit the

Re: [libreoffice-users] OS hangs while visiting a LO wiki page

2015-09-16 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Simos Xenitellis wrote: (obviously we are off-topic) On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:46 PM, wrote: Tom Williams wrote: On 09/15/2015 01:43 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Ady Ady wrote: Hello Users of LibreOffice, Once in a while

Re: [libreoffice-users] OS hangs while visiting a LO wiki page

2015-09-17 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 15/09/15 21:43, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: I use Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.33.1 (based on Firefox 36), Mark. And LO, so why are you bothering with Windows? Install Linux! The main limiting factor is time. Installing Linux is relatively easy;

Re: [libreoffice-users] Outline Numbering

2015-09-27 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Virgil Arrington wrote: I've got some strange behavior with outline numbering. I've created a combination of paragraph styles and an outline number schemes to come up with the following hierarchy. The numbering is governed through the Outline Numbering dialog and the names are my paragraphs

Re: [libreoffice-users] [LibreOffice 5.0.1.2] How to play an animated slide?

2015-09-27 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
(Original sent 22 Sept 2015 doesn't seem to have got through to the list; apologies if this ends up as a duplicate) Gilles wrote: Hello I have another Impress-related question to which I (obviously) found no answer. Some of the slides are animated, but Impress only shows the first part. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Base to open selected form revisited

2015-09-22 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Bill.Baggins wrote: I am having some problems. I receive this message when attempting to execute the macro from Nov 04, 2014; 4:33am [Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Setting Base to open with a slected form Spelling in context from original message. I have deleted the comma and then receive

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where to post improvement suggestions?

2015-12-02 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Brian Barker wrote: At 21:12 01/12/2015 +, Mark Bourne wrote: Perhaps I'm missing something too, but I think I can see where Steve's coming from. For example: - The table is a fixed width or filling the whole page width (and that's how you want it; selecting "adapt table width" is not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer saving files as Read Only

2015-12-01 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
I can't think of anything in LibreOffice's settings, but then I don't even have Word installed so probably wouldn't have noticed if there was a problem. It may be worth trying a newer version of LibreOffice. The latest "still" version (less features but possibly more stable) is 4.4.6. Can you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where to post improvement suggestions?

2015-12-01 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2015-12-02 10:12, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: V Stuart Foote wrote: steveedmonds wrote Although not relevant to the original posters situation, I would like to see a columns tab under the table dialogue that lists the column widths where you can

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Where to post improvement suggestions?

2015-12-01 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
V Stuart Foote wrote: steveedmonds wrote Although not relevant to the original posters situation, I would like to see a columns tab under the table dialogue that lists the column widths where you can type in the width of each column. I frequently have to tweek tables by stealing width from

Re: [libreoffice-users] Focus problem

2015-12-04 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 16:05:47 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: Here is a screenshot: Hmm. The screenshot didn't make it. Problem with the listserve? It's not a problem (OK, maybe it is a problem for you, but not in the sense of a fault ;o). The

Re: [libreoffice-users] OSX text-to-speech 'selection' not working in libreoffice

2015-12-06 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Hi Jacques, I don't use OSX, nor accessibility tools, so can't help with your specific problem. However, there might some useful information at (a web page on accessibility in LibreOffice). There's also a separate LibreOffice mailing list

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreLogo tutorial

2015-12-06 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
I don't have LibreLogo in my Windows installation, but I might have used the "custom" install option and chosen not to install it. Anyway, if it's not already installed on Windows: - From Windows' Control Panel, open "Programs and Features". - Find "LibreOffice" (not the LibreOffice Help Pack).

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Read Only issues

2015-12-05 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
charles meyer wrote: Hi Folks, First, if I saved a document as .odt and tried opening it in MS Word 2003 I would get a Read Only option to open it. Now, when I saved a document in MS Word and then try to open it in Libre Writer 4.3.5.2 I get the message...Unknown user. Open document read-only

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreLogo tutorial

2015-12-05 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
anne-ology wrote: after a period in a sentence there should be 2 spaces even though these machines default to only 1; I gather that's mostly a throwback to the days of typewriters and monospace fonts, where the extra space made it easier to read. Some style guides still suggest

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreLogo tutorial

2015-12-10 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
No problem. Feel free to adapt it if necessary to fit with your style, or clarify anything you think should be clearer. Mark. Kolbjørn Stuestøl wrote: Thanks. May I add this to the tutorial? Kolbjørn Den 06.12.2015 12:54, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com skreiv: I don't have

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreLogo - Error in Help for RANGE?

2015-12-10 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Kolbjørn Stuestøl wrote: Continuing experimenting with LibreLogo. Help for LibreLogo says that: PRINT RANGE 3 10 3 ; print [3, 6, 9] (i.e. outputs 3, 6, 9.) When I try it I get the output: "range (3 10 3)". (Also "LABEL RANGE 3 10 3" and "TEXT RANGE 3 10 3" outputs "range (3 10 3)".) I do

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreLogo - Error in Help for RANGE?

2015-12-11 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Kolbjørn Stuestøl wrote: Den 10.12.2015 23:27, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com skreiv: Kolbjørn Stuestøl wrote: Continuing experimenting with LibreLogo. Help for LibreLogo says that: PRINT RANGE 3 10 3 ; print [3, 6, 9] (i.e. outputs 3, 6, 9.) When I try it I get the output: "range

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LOBase Query - Left or Right Join?

2016-01-05 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Don Parris wrote: Still trying to work out the OUTER JOIN syntax apparently. I tried a simpler outer join statement: SELECT "tCoreType"."type" "Type", "tCoreCategory"."category" "Category" FROM {oj "tCoreType" "ctype" LEFT OUTER JOIN "tCoreCategory" "ccat" ON "ctype"."type_id" =

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-10 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Ken Springer wrote: On 2/10/16 8:28 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/16 11:39 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 2/9/16 2:23 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/16 03:23 PM, Dave Liesse wrote: I've never had any luck with any of the Avery templates I've tried (although my problem has been mostly with

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