Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice help menu

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
It sounds like the 'in-built' help package has not been installed.

When installing LibreOffice from the upstream website (ie the LibreOffice
website, as you would install stuff if you were using Windows) there are
usually 3 packages to install;
1.  The main installer for the LibreOffice program/suite itself
2.  The 'in-built' help file/package
3.  Your language, unless En-US is your language in which case this package
would be bundled in with the main installer.

So for the LibreOffice version from your repos you may need to use a
package-manager to search for "LibreOffice help" of "LibreOffice help
files" or something like that.  When i have installed LibreOffice in Ubuntu
in the past (when else right??) i'm sure the help-files were all selected
by default, automatically.  This behaviour may well have been changed
either temporarily or deliberately for many different reasons.

Personally i seem to remember the 'in-built' help seems to cause problems
for native-English-speakers whereas the "Published Guides" are excellent;
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications

The translations of the 'inbuilt' help into almost all other languages
other than English seem to be fantastic.  For the English version the team
that does the 'in-built' help has always been incredibly tiny and more
'geeky' than 'normal', and as a separate team from the one that works on
the published guides their process of review-proofreading etc has been
somewhat different too.  Recently quite a lot of work has been done on the
'in-built' help to make it more 'normal' for us to understand more easily.
However this work too is being done by non-native English speakers as it
requires unusual technical skills that The Documentation Team doesn't find
easy to learn.  Hopefully the in-built help will remain just as good to
translate from because it's always been particularly brilliant for that.

Good luck and many regards from
Tom :)





On 20 January 2017 at 18:24, Dave Howorth  wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 19:27:20 +0100
> Philip Jackson  wrote:
>
> > On 18/01/17 13:16, Dave Howorth wrote:
> > > I run LibreOffice Version: 5.2.3.3 Build ID: 20m0(Build:3) on
> > > openSUSE Leap 42.1
> > >
> > > I just clicked on LibreOffice Help in the Help menu and discovered
> > > that it opened a web page instead of a help window. The web page is
> > > https://help.libreoffice.org/index.php?title=5.2/Common/
> Help=en-US=UNIX=5.2#bm_id3149178
> > > and I can't figure out how to use it to get help! It seems to be
> > > some kind of overview/index but there doesn't seem to be any way to
> > > actually invoke help. How do I use it?
> > >
> > Hi - I recognise your problem, Dave.  I had exactly this on Ubuntu1404
> > LTS using the distro supplied version of LO.
>
> Hi Philip,
>
> Many thanks for your reply. It seems that both openSUSE and Ubuntu
> dropped the ball when packaging this version, which perhaps points to
> some communication omission on LO's part. I've submitted an openSUSE
> bug for it but haven't had any feedback yet.
>
> > I've just refreshed my memory of how I dealt with it.  On the page
> > your link gets to, in the left hand column, second entry down is
> > "Main Page".
> >
> > This takes you to :  https://help.libreoffice.org/Main_Page
> > and here you find more interesting links to each of the components in
> > LO suite.
>
> Thanks for those instructions; they'll definitely help until the distro
> is fixed. It's a pity the menu entry in the application doesn't link
> directly to the online help for that application. Then it might be
> almost usable!
>
> Cheers, Dave
>
> > hth
> > Philip
> >
>
>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Hello - New Signup

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
There are people here.  Usually a few emails per day.  I'm busy with other
projects now and rarely get to check my emails but i'm sure you'll
recognise quite a few people who are still around or just pop by like me.

Good to see you back bud :)
Regards from
Tom :)


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[libreoffice-users] Hello - New Signup

[Mike Adams]

I used to belong to this mailing list as linux_m...@paradise.net.nz
until a disagreement with my ISP left that address high and dry.

Wondering how active the list still is?

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Fill Series

[libreoffice-ml . mbourne]

V Stuart Foote wrote:

Two major issues with the 5.2.4.2 build on Windows:

Crash when exiting Writer after copying to clipboard
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104830


I recall seeing that report recently (perhaps when I was searching for 
issues which might have lead to your advice), but couldn't reproduce it. 
Just tried again, and it only seems to occur if configured not to load 
the Quickstarter. With the Quickstarter running, there is no crash, 
possibly because LibreOffice doesn't actually exit.



[Windows] Failure to populate system font list
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105015


I hadn't experienced that one either, but can reproduce after adding the 
specific printer mentioned in Comment 33. It seems I happen to have a 
printer which doesn't trigger that crash.



Steps to reproduce in the BZ reports (and duplicates).

Tens of thousands of crash reports for these two issues, so yes best
to avoid the build and move now to the 5.2.5.1, or 5.3.0.2 both in
pre-release.


Thanks for the links. I was sure you had your reasons; more surprised 
not to have encountered problems when you were so definitely against 
that particular version. I guess I've just been lucky that my particular 
configuration has avoided these so far ;o)



http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/win/


I'll certainly take a look at installing that.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Can I reload a form based on a parameter query?

[Robert Großkopf]

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Hi Peter,

> I have a form which at present is based on a parameter query - the
> user types in a criterion and only the relevant database rows are
> shown.When I press a button a macro does various actions, including
> deleting the currently selected row. After all this I want to
> reload the form to get the latest version (without the deleted
> row). But a straight Form.Reload asks again for the criterion,
> which I don't want.
> 
> Is there any way of doing this? The only way I can think of is to
> use a dialogue or input box to allow the user to input the
> criterion and base the query on a SELECT clause incorporating the
> criterion.

You could better put the parameter-values in a form and the query in a
subform. The values in the form could be saved in a table with only
one row. Call it "filter" ore something else, primarykey is a boolean
yes-no-field. So you could type the parameter, change to the subform
and the subform will be reloaded. It will also be reloaded without
asking again for the paramter, because this is written down in the
mainform.

Regards

Robert
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[libreoffice-users] Can I reload a form based on a parameter query?

[ptoye]

I have a form which at present is based on a parameter query - the user types
in a criterion and only the relevant database rows are shown.When I press a
button a macro does various actions, including deleting the currently
selected row. After all this I want to reload the form to get the latest
version (without the deleted row). But a straight Form.Reload asks again for
the criterion, which I don't want.

Is there any way of doing this? The only way I can think of is to use a
dialogue or input box to allow the user to input the criterion and base the
query on a SELECT clause incorporating the criterion.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail merge wizard: how to remove an address list

[Brian Barker]

At 11:02 23/01/2017 +0100, Angelo Spognardi wrote:
It seems like you cannot remove address lists once you've added them 
during the wizard process. Since many of them were trials (and 
errors...), I'm stuck with a list of erroneous and useless address 
lists. How can I remove them?


The simple answer is to go to Tools | Options... | LibreOffice Base | 
Databases, select the relevant database, and click Delete. Note that 
this deletes only the *registration* of the relevant database, so it 
will no longer appear as available in the Mail Merge Wizard. This may 
be all you need.


But this doesn't affect the databases themselves, which appear to 
exist both as comma-separated value (.csv) and LibreOffice database 
(.odb) files. If you want to delete these, you need to find them, 
perhaps in the "database" folder in the user profile, in your default 
folder for saving files, or where you chose to save them. The above 
procedure will help indicate their whereabouts. Except for the 
extensions, they will all have the same file names.


I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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[libreoffice-users] Mail merge wizard: how to remove an address list

[Angelo Spognardi]

It seems like you cannot remove address lists once you've added them
during the wizard process. Since many of them were trials (and
errors...), I'm stuck with a list of erroneous and useless address
lists. How can I remove them?

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