[libreoffice-users] Re: How to change dialog box font size?

[Nino Novak]

Am 11.06.2016 um 03:20 schrieb Edwar Cifuentes:

> Maybe I'm not using the right syntax here.
> Does anyone know how to specify the font size in the replacement table?

did you try Tools->Options->LibreOffice->View and change the scaling of the UI?

Nino


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Not archived mails at Gmane

[Nino Novak]

On 04.01.2016 at 15:51 Nino Novak wrote:
> On 04.01.2016 at 14:49, Brian Barker wrote:
>> At 07:51 04/01/2016 -0500, William Drescher wrote:

>>> Brian's original post never did show up in my newsgroup feed (gmane).
>>
>> How right you are! Nothing from me has appeared in Gmane since 19 September
>> 2013. You may have to choose a service which works, without censoring 
>> replies.
>>
>> Does anyone know why I am persona non grata? I wonder how many others are ...
> 
> Strange, in deed.
> 
> I just sent a request for explanation to gmane.org, will report their
> reaction hopefully soon :)

Here is what I asked and what Lars from Gmane.org replied :

>>>> in gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.user, mails written by Brian
>>>> Barker obviously do not get archived since 19 Sept 2013 (exact date not
>>>> verified).
>>>> 
>>>> Can you explain, why?

>>> The usual reason is that the messages in question contain the
>>> X-No-Archive header.  I haven't examined the messages in question,
>>> though.
>> 
>> As you could see from the attached mail I sent you, it has no X-No-Archive
>> header. So there is no obvious reason not to archive it at Gmane from my
>> POV. But yet it is omitted. Can we have it archived, please?
> 
> There are no filters for content on Gmane, so there's nothing I can do.

Now, I have no more ideas what else we could do about this issue. It remains
a mystery.

Sorry for that,
Nino



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[libreoffice-users] Not archived mails at Gmane (was: Re: Checkbox in table cell (inside of a frame))

[Nino Novak]

On 04.01.2016 at 14:49, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 07:51 04/01/2016 -0500, William Drescher wrote:
>> Brian's original post never did show up in my newsgroup feed (gmane).
> 
> How right you are! Nothing from me has appeared in Gmane since 19 September
> 2013. You may have to choose a service which works, without censoring replies.
> 
> Does anyone know why I am persona non grata? I wonder how many others are ...

Strange, in deed.

I just sent a request for explanation to gmane.org, will report their
reaction hopefully soon :)

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Not archived mails at Gmane (was: Re: Checkbox in table cell (inside of a frame))

[Nino Novak]

On 04.01.2016 at 14:49, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 07:51 04/01/2016 -0500, William Drescher wrote:
>> Brian's original post never did show up in my newsgroup feed (gmane).
> 
> How right you are! Nothing from me has appeared in Gmane since 19 September
> 2013. You may have to choose a service which works, without censoring replies.
> 
> Does anyone know why I am persona non grata? I wonder how many others are ...

Strange, in deed.

I just sent a request for explanation to gmane.org, will report their
reaction hopefully soon :)

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: I Would Like to Learn a Macro Language LO 5.0

[Nino Novak]

Am 05.10.2015 um 09:44 schrieb Stephan Bergmann:
> On 10/04/2015 07:25 AM, mowestusa wrote:
>> | |  Macros created with LibreOffice Basic based on the old
>> programming interface will no longer be supported by the current version. |
> 
> Do you have a link to where you found the above quote? 

e.g. here: https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Programming

Nino



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[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice's documentation (pdf and online)

[Nino Novak]

On 28.06.2015 04:24, David Allen wrote:

> [...]  It's a loose compilation of answers [...]

Thanks for your compilation, David.

However - what are your ideas about consequences?

To me, it seems rather difficult to improve the situation as whatever the
idea is, it is always an awful lot of work to do. Therefore, the only
promising strategy seems kind of "crowdsourcing" the work i.e. make it as
easy as possible to contribute so that many many people can collaborate.

The historical situation was to have the local F1 help, which is rather
difficult to manage and nearly impossible for normal people to contribute.
So the folks keen to contribute created the User Guides as supplement which
is much easier to contribute to.

Nowadays, with all the collaborative internet possibilities, one could think
of a better linking of the two by creating a "combined help", i.e. a wiki
help which allows easy contribution on the one hand but is also context
sensitive like the local help. This has been started, but is far from being
functional: The wikihelp nicely reacts to F1 if no localhelp is installed,
but contribution is not yet implemented. So we have to live with this "not
yet" status for another couple of years, I fear.

That's the way I see it. Curious about your improvement proposals.

Nino




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[libreoffice-users] User Friendly Documentation [was: Re: LibreOffice's documentation (pdf and online)]

[Nino Novak]

On 24.06.2015 at 22:15, toki wrote:

> What would "user friendly" look like to you?

very nice question :)

To me, "user friendly" would match following criteria:

+ complete
+ up to date
+ online
   + with option to download and use locally
+ context sensitive
+ multi language
+ user commentable
   + with option to hide comments
   + with "helpful/not helpful" rating enabled
  + with option to show top rated comments first

and, for community/contribution interested users:

+ collaborativly created (like a wiki)
  (which is different from comment function!)
+ nice2have: views/downloads counter

The best example AFAIK is php documentation [1] but it's written by techies
for techies (aka freak2freak), whilest LibO has (hopefully) a lot of
non-freak users.

[1] http://php.net/docs.php


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[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice's documentation (pdf and online)

[Nino Novak]

On 25.06.2015 05:18, dallen wrote:

> "For starters, there are three different groups that are involved in
> creating/maintaining documentation. Each group has its own templates,
> set of procedures, priorities, and barriers to participation."
> 
> Three groups? 1) pdf 2) Online help
> 
> Who else?

from my POV, the l10n teams: they localize the UI in the first place, but
also the "pdfs" (aka User Guides)

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: time and date difference

[Nino Novak]

Am 24.04.2015 um 10:46 schrieb sserra:

> E14 = 23/04/2015 15:30
> E15 = 25/04/2015 16:20
> E16 = DAYS(E15;E14)
[...]
> does anyone knows how can I solve this??

did you try
 E16: =E15-E14
?
(IIRC set cell format to [hh] to display difference in hours)

Regards,
Nino


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[libreoffice-users] Casual conversation (was: Re: Enforcing Calc sheet protection)

[Nino Novak]

On 16.04.2015 at 22:20, Andreas Säger wrote:
> @tom
> 
> SHUT UP!!! If you don't have anything to tell.

:-(

I understand both:

 - Andreas, who is a high-level Libre/OpenOffice expert and really needs
exact and non-distracting communication

and

 - Tom who is a genius in association and cross-connection but with a high
percentage of (sometimes incredibly wrong) guessing

Personally, I'm in favour of Andreas' way of communication as I also get
distracted too easy by Tom's frequent associations.

But as far as I perceive it, a bunch of subscribers do appreciate Tom's
friendly tone, even if the contents is sometimes not very helpful.

Does anybody know a good solution for this dilemma?

The perhaps clearest way would be to set up a list policy, which says that
only short answers are allowed, or that only solution suggestions are
welcome, which the writer has tested himself - or something similar. But
IMHO it's absolutely not easy/trivial to define exactly what is welcome and
what not.

A different idea could be to split the list into a "first" and "second"
level support, with diffrerent list policies (e.g. in list 2 only
to-the-point-communication, no distraction allowed).

Another idea could be to ask Andreas to try to ignore Tom's messages, and
ask Tom to try to restrain himself. Does this sound helpful?

Regards,
Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Sort Bug ?

[Nino Novak]

Pertti, all,

1) This seems to be an old known problem (see e.g. [1])

2) I just tested 3.4.1 (LibO+AOO) - its already present there, so IMHO it's
inherited from OOo

3) an easy Workaround exists (go over Data > Sort, choose proper column
label Options)

So IMO the next questions are,
- how important is this bug?
- is there general agreement about a default behavior / column label
recognition algorithm?

Then the bug could be pushed to a higher prio / dev visibility.

Nino

[1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77681


Am 27.03.2015 um 11:38 schrieb Pertti Rönnberg:
> Tim Lloyd's comment is not acceptable!
> This is not a question of a (unpaid) programmer's likings or priorities --
> this is a serious question of Libre Office's liability,
> because both of the the sort buttons in the toolbar (asc & desc) give wrong
> results as well as there is no clear explanation why and how the sort command
> in Data=> sort must be "customized" if yopu want a correct result.
> 
> A spreadsheet program that cannot be fully trusted is totally worthless!!
> 
> These "bugs" are a result of very bad planning and an obviously total lack
> of control & testing of the programming before it was accepted
> as a feature in Calc and the complete LibreOffice suite.
> 
> Neither is this really not a "game" -- anyone who goes for to programming
> something for LibreOffice must feel the responsibility for the result -- as
> well as
> the controlling team (if any?).
> 
> The sort feature is a very important feature why these faults have to be
> corrected immediately
>>>the function of both the sort buttons set to "normal" sort of a
> selected range
>>>all selections set to blanc in Data=>sort=>options
> Pertti Rönnberg
> 
> 
> 
> On 26.3.2015 2:12, Tim Lloyd wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> while LO does allow a certain amount of customisation, at this point in
>> the game this particular menu option can not be changed.
>>
>> This then becomes a feature request, either
>>
>>  * change the default
>>  * allow the sort options to be customised
>>
>> Once a feature request is submitted it is really up to a (unpaid)
>> programmer to step forward and take on the action. I can't see this being
>> high on the programmer's list of priorities but it may be deemed an "easy
>> hack" which an aspiring young person could field.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26/03/15 10:58, Richard VINCK wrote:
>>> Tim Lloyd
>>> Thank you for pointing this. Indeed, unticking it works then correctly.
>>> But it should be the default, and should remain unticked. (and should be
>>> more visible, as it is hidden in the Option tab)
>>> Can we make it as default?
>>>
>>> On 2015-03-26 00:42, Tim Lloyd wrote:
 A quick look at the doco reveals...

 Range contains column/row labels
 – omits the first row or the first column in the selection from the sort

 Untick this box and you are sorted.

 Cheers

 On 26/03/15 10:06, Wade Smart wrote:
> Hmm I just tried to sort going through the
> sort menu and I still cant get it to sort
> properly.
>
> It does numbers just fine though.
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>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Wade Smart  wrote:
>> **cough cough** .. feature understood.
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>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Michael Tiernan
>>  wrote:
>>> On 3/25/15 6:53 PM, Wade Smart wrote:
 I have 4.2.7.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 and you are correct, sort is not
 working.
>>> When I reported it, I provided a great deal of information about it and
>>> was told "Not a bug" and "works for me" by those who have the power to
>>> close bugs.
>>>
>>> My argument was/is that if you use the sort arrows (as you have done
>>> here) then you're asking/telling LO to sort the selected rows with no
>>> options.
>>>
>>> Instead it was deemed correct that instead, LO assumes the first cell
>>> found is used as a label regardless of any other settings.
>>>
>>> This "feature" (*cough*) cost me a number of hours of work to get around
>>> and avoid.
>>>
>>> The argument is that since you can use the "Sort" menu option and change
>>> this behavior *for each sort occurrence* then there's a work around for
>>> the "feature" and we should be happy with that.
>>>
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[libreoffice-users] Re: Can I stop LibreOffice from converting Unicode into normal text

[Nino Novak]

On 10.03.2015 01:50, mogens wrote:
> I am attemting to copy/paste a URL textstring into a hyperlink in a
> LibreOfficedocumentThe textstring (URL) contains Unicode characters e.g.
> %c3%a5However, Libre Office automatically converts the Unicode values into
> their Danish equivalent (å)That means that the hyperlink doesn't workHow can
> I stop this conversionThank you for any helpMogens Engsig-Karup

I can't reproduce this. Could you give step-by-step instructions what you
are doing?

Did you try Edit > Paste special > Unformatted Code (or whatever it's
called, I have no English version working)

Nino

BTW: as such questions are better sent to users@global.libreoffice.org I'm
cc'ing the users' list


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Unchecking Show Changes Causes Crash

[Nino Novak]

Am 09.03.2015 um 15:26 schrieb ReD-BaRoN:

> I have a document where unchecking Show Change is causing LibreOffice to
> crash. I've created a Bugzilla account, but I can't find the correct Project
> under which to log a bug.
> 
> Can someone point in the right direction to file a bug against LibreOffice?

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi

Click on LibreOffice :-)

(but first check if the bug has been reported already)

Regards,
Nino


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Conditional DB-Fields

[Nino Novak]

Am 10.01.2015 um 16:32 schrieb Heinrich Stöllinger:
> Hello,
> I want the following to work in writer (LO 4.3.5.2, Linux-Mint 17):
> if db.table.field != "" -> print db.table.field else print nothing.
> In other words - if a field in a DB-tuple isn't empty I want LO
> to print that field, otherwise don't print anything. I have no
> problem printing "fixed text" if a condition is fulfilled. However,
> I can't get it to work in case I want the DB-field itself printed.
> Regards
> H. Stoellinger

1) Insert > Field > Other > Tab "Functions"

2) click on Field type "Conditional Text" (or similar, I don't know the
exact english terms as I use a German localisation)

3) Enter...

Condition:!db.table.field

Then: (leave empty)

Else: db.table.field

Works well on my machine (4.1.6.2/Linux x64)

Nino


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Unable to split tables in LO writer

[Nino Novak]

Am 16.09.2014 um 11:41 schrieb Stephen Harding:
> When I insert a table in LO writer it immediately starts at the top of the
> next page as though a page break is inserted before the table. 

What does the Text Flow register of the Table Format dialog say? (RightClick
into the table, chose "Table ..." from context menu)

HTH
Nino


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Opening worksheets from the terminal in linux?

[Nino Novak]

Hi Jim,

Am 09.09.2014 03:51, schrieb Jim Byrnes:

> 1. Can I open a specific spreadsheet from the terminal?  I have tried a lot
> of combinations and I either get a new/untitled worksheet or an error message.

just a simple
[path_to]/soffice file1.ods
works fine here (4.3.1/SUSE)

What error message do you get?


> 2.  If I solve [1] will error messages appear in the terminal?

(I suppose so - but don't know really, so someone else has to help you)

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Split cells in Calc

[Nino Novak]

Am 10.08.2014 15:10, schrieb Pat Brown:
> Nino, I am creating a geological time-line in Calc. Working across the
> sheet I am dividing the cells into periods. There are five different sets
> of periods. I find, after I have started, that I need to create smaller
> units than one cell. If I could split this cell it would work for me.
> Otherwise I need to evaluate the whole time line and provisionally merge
> columns in the right place in order to be able to merge the ones I need at
> a later stage.

Sorry, I'm not a geologist, so "a geological time-line" does not say
anything to me.

What do your cells contain? Could you give an example?

See, you have your spreadsheet in mind but I/we do not know how it looks
like. So it is difficult to help.

You could also upload a screenshot somewhere and post the link here, this
could help to understand the problem.

Nino




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[libreoffice-users] Re: Split cells in Calc

[Nino Novak]

Pat,

why do you need to split a cell? What data does it contain and what do you
need to do with these data?

Nino

Am 10.08.2014 13:25, schrieb Pat Brown:
> Hi Guys,
>Is there any way to split a primary (one that has not been 'merged'
> previously) cell?  I can't seem to find such an option. If there is no
> current option then is it technically possible to do so?
> 
> Paddy
> 


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[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

[Nino Novak]

Am 06.08.2014 13:07, schrieb Tom Davies:

> So again the question has apparently gone back to "What is the advantage of
> the "Still" branch.  Why would people choose it or what circumstances would
> suit "Still" better than "Fresh"?"

The main advantage is its age: it's more mature; it has been in use for a
longer time; people know it better; more questions have been answered in all
the support forums etc.

You see, the main problem is not having two branches, it's having two
branches which do not differ too much - just half a year. Therefore, both
are rather "fresh", there is no "really mature" version, at least not in the
public.

So the thing to really complain about is the lack of a really mature (2-3-4
years or more) version! Therefore, all the bug fixing etc does not really
improve the stability of the software as branches end their lifetime too
soon after receiving their last bugfix update.

I'm not sure what the effects would be if there was a Long Time Support
version. Maybe, everybody would switch to this LTS verison and bug reporting
would decrease dramatically. But maybe also, that peoples' satisfachtion
would grow considerably and therefore also commitment and loyalty. Who knows?

In a first step I'd very much like the community to decrease the release
frequeny to once a year instead of every 6 months.

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

[Nino Novak]

Am 06.08.2014 11:38, schrieb Tom Davies:

> This seems to contradict what both Charles and what Florian Reisinger were
> saying.

No. See below:


[...]

> It also kinda explains the graphic on the;
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan
> page, although that graphic doesn't make a lot of sense to me.  Do other
> people understand it?  There used to be a neat little graph which kinda
> boggled the eyes at first but began to make sense after staring at it for a
> while.

By clicking on the graphics you come to its upload page with all former
versions: just chose the one you want to see, e.g. this:



> So Nino's answer suggests that some people might prefer the branch that has
> matured because by that time it is more stable.  So releases with a higher
> 3rd digit are more mature, more stable and less likely to have problems.
> The only downside is that you get less features.

exactly.


> However this seems to contradict what Charles was saying about both
> branches being fully stable.  So which is wrong?

Maybe it's about the usage of the word "stable".

Charles uses it in kind of a "strict sense" in software development: a
software may be called stable if no crasher bugs are reported/open. (I don't
know the exact actual definition in LibreOffice as I did not find it
explicitly written somewhere). Florian simply assumes that the state
"stable" is reached after the 6th bugfix release. So their definitions
seemingly differ and it might be considered helpful to work on a common
definition. But there is no doubt that both try to use it "according to
definition" (or presumable definition).

You seem to use it in an undefined way, kind of a "common sense". Which is
also right, but - as is the nature of undefined terms - does not reflect the
product's state but rather your (or someone else's) expectations.

So, strictly spoken, Charles/Florian are right. But commonly spoken, you are
right.

There is additionally the problem of comparing two differend kinds of fruit:
it's difficult to compare the maturity of oranges and apples. Strictly
spoken, you cannot say, this orange is more mature than this apple. In this
analogy, every minor branch *is* a different fruit as it has different
features from other minor branches :-)
Therefore one simply shouldn't compare them regarding "stableness". It will
always stay an opinion showing that the person uttering it does not really
understand what she is talking about ;-)


Regards,
Nino
omg, what a long posting ,-)

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[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

[Nino Novak]

Am 06.08.2014 07:29, schrieb Pikov Andropov:
> Florian Reisinger wrote on 8/6/2014 1:22 AM:
>> Hi,
>> The problem we have: We do not have one release branch as Firefox has, we 
>> have two... Users should use and find bugs on the "Fresh" version in order 
>> to make thee fresh, which will be renamed to stable after 6M.
>> So how to say "you can use the feature packed fresh"? It is not an RC it is 
>> an tested final release
>> So yes, we have a different model, so we need different names then the 
>> standard :)
> 
> What are the differences between the two branches?

The younger one (fresh) has been forked later from the master development
branch. Therefore it obviously has more features.

But as it is younger, it is less "mature" than the earlier (still) branch.

If you look into each branch separately, the branch goes through the well
known states (alpha, beta, RC, final) for its first release (the x.y.0), but
then keeps iterating through several additional (bugfix) releases, from
x.y.1 to x.y.6 in most cases. So each branch individually gains increasingly
bugfreeness during its individual

Nino



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[libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer: Highlighting; setting page properties; some more nitpicking

[Nino Novak]

Am 30.07.2014 16:40, schrieb Jon Harringdon:

> These are not bugs of course, just suggestions that'd make things a
> little easier. Is this the best way of posting such things?

Jon,

suggestions are welcome here, but this is a users' list, so don't expect to
get developer lever answers.

OTOH, it's sometimes good to hear what other users think about such suggestions.

The formal way to propose enhancements is Bugzilla[1]. As Bugzilla is a
devs' tool and thus a bit hard to use for normal people, you might prefer to
file your proposals through the Submission Assistant[2], which is a simpler
interface to Bugzilla.

Best,
Nino

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/

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

[Nino Novak]

Am 23.04.2014 02:54, schrieb Dale Erwin:
> On 4/22/2014 7:35 AM, Nino Novak wrote:
>> On 21.04.2014 22:30, Dale Erwin wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> I have never had this problem and have never had the need to create
>>> sections.  Maybe it's because I always use page styles alternating from
>>> right page to left page and back.  For instance, I begin a book with a page
>>> style called "Title", marked as right page only and set the next page style
>>> to "Copyright".  I set the Copyright style to left page only and the next
>>> style as FrontMatterRight.  I set the FrontMatterRight style to right page
>>> only and next style as FrontMatterLeft and set the FrontMatterLeft style to
>>> left page only and next style to FrontMatterRight.  This puts me in a loop,
>>> and to break out of the loop I insert a manual page break and check the
>>> option to change the style.  I also set the FrontMatter styles to use lower
>>> case roman numerals for page numbering and I can change the page numbering
>>> at the same time as I break out of the loop with the insert manual page
>>> break.
>> Isn't what you describe exactly creating sections (even if you call it "page
>> break with changing style" or whatever)?
>>
>> Nino
> 
> I should hope not.  On the Insert menu there is an option for Manual Break
> and an option for Section.  Why would that be considered the same thing? 
> And, if it is, why are two options necessary?

Oh sorry, this was a translation problem: the German word for "section" can
be the same as for "range", so here I rather meant "range": If you go over
"Insert - Manual break" you can create a *range* of pages with a certain
style (not a section which indeed is something different).

Nino


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

[Nino Novak]

On 21.04.2014 22:30, Dale Erwin wrote:

[...]

> I have never had this problem and have never had the need to create
> sections.  Maybe it's because I always use page styles alternating from
> right page to left page and back.  For instance, I begin a book with a page
> style called "Title", marked as right page only and set the next page style
> to "Copyright".  I set the Copyright style to left page only and the next
> style as FrontMatterRight.  I set the FrontMatterRight style to right page
> only and next style as FrontMatterLeft and set the FrontMatterLeft style to
> left page only and next style to FrontMatterRight.  This puts me in a loop,
> and to break out of the loop I insert a manual page break and check the
> option to change the style.  I also set the FrontMatter styles to use lower
> case roman numerals for page numbering and I can change the page numbering
> at the same time as I break out of the loop with the insert manual page break.

Isn't what you describe exactly creating sections (even if you call it "page
break with changing style" or whatever)?

Nino


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[libreoffice-users] Re: CALC: repeat first line to each page

[Nino Novak]

Am 28.03.2014 10:11, schrieb Rafnews:
> Hi,
> 
> i would like to know if there is an option like under MS Excel, to
> repeat first line or 2 first lines of the document on each printing page
> (or PDF page) ?

see http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/21473

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.2.3-RC1

[Nino Novak]

Am 15.03.2014 10:25, schrieb Heinrich Stoellinger:

> I have a problem with frames. If I want to print a frame without a border,
> LO ignores the definition (i.e. - thickness and colour of the line). Even
> if I define "no border at all" plus "pinting in white colour" around the
> frame
> this gets ignored.
> 
> Testing further I see that - weird enough - this happens only within a
> document
> with variables inserted from a database (in the case tested the DB is a
> LO-calc-table).
> 
> Everything works fine under previous versions of LO.
> 
> To me this is critical and I hope it will be fixed quickly...

As long as it is unknown to the devs, nothing will happen:

Check e.g. this list:



and if your problem is not in this list, I'd suggest to report it.

Nino


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Thunderbird - too many Address Books

[Nino Novak]

Am 14.03.2014 14:00, schrieb Custfold:
> I'm getting a bit annoyed at having my address book split between
> Personal Address Book and Collected Addresses, with an attempt at
> getting a Master Combined address book not too successful
> 
> Can someone tell me the sequence/commands to combine the disparate
> collections under a single umbrella?
> 
> At some stage I'll also need to bring over an Evolution address list -
> big file.

Interesting question/need.

The only idea I have is to have a common master address database which
in turn is then used by the different (mail) applications.

It might also be possible to "combine" the different back ends into one
front end. But not without major programming efforts, as far as I can
judge. Curious what other people think.

However, in a first effort, I'd try to get rid of the "Collected
Addresses" data in Thunderbird by merging them into my Personal
Addressbook and accordingly changing the destination under Preferences >
Composition > Addressing - "Automatically add ..."
But it's only a workaround.


Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc - how to move (drag-n-drop using mouse) or cut/insert rows/columns

[Nino Novak]

Am 26.02.2014 15:28, schrieb Tanstaafl:
> Ok, Ive messed with this in the past, never been able to figure it out,
> but something always stopped me from pursuing it until now.
> 
> I'm just looking for the quickest/easiest way to MOVE rows/columns.
> 
> Is this even possible? I've NEVER been able to get it to work, even in
> Excel...

For me it's just

1. (Left-) Click a row/column header to mark it,

2. Click just somewhere inside the marked column (into the data area,
not the header) and hold/drag it to the desired destination

3. Release it.

What happens when you try this?

Nino



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[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.1.3

[Nino Novak]

Am 12.12.2013 09:38, schrieb Kunwar Shivpal Singh:

> What would happen if I download LO 3.5.7 (already started it from Source
> Forge. Will there be a clash between the 2 versions? Will LO 4.1.3.2
> allow me to install the older version LO 3.5.7?

Kunwar, if it is of interest for you: you can install both versions in
parallel - see
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel

Regards,
Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Copying text

[Nino Novak]

Am 28.11.2013 22:21, schrieb A:
> I want to enter text here [xxx] and have it copy that text
> 
> [here]
> 
> [here]
> 
> and [here].
> 
> How can I do that?

You can e.g. create & insert a variable called "User Field":

1) Write your text
2) Place Cursor at the desired first occurence of the variable.
3) Insert > Fields > Other > Tab "Variables"
4) Select Type "User Field", Format "Text", Name "MyName" (or similar,
some reserved names like "Name" are not allowed), Value "[EDIT ME]"
5) Click "Insert" button (or arrow) but don't close the Field Dialog.
6) Move the cursor to the next occurence of the variable
7) Double click on the variable in the "Selection" pane to insert a new
instance

Repeat #6 - 7 until you are done.

Save the document.

To change the variable's content (= its value) you can double click any
one of the instances and edit the Value field in the Field Dialog.

If you don't see any, you can play with the toggles in
View > Field Shadings  or  View > Field Names.

HTH
Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: On Reporting Bugs

[Nino Novak]

Am 12.11.2013 15:28, schrieb Oogie McGuire:
> For me I tried to navigate bugzilla to report  continuing bugs where
> 2 formatting issues occur regularly:

Oogie,

without having completely read (and even less understood) your problem,
I'd suggest first to try creating a new spreadsheet from scratch and
then copy-pasting the data from the old sheet into the new one. Just to
exclude there is some ancient inconsistency in your document which
causes the problem.

[...]

> Unfortunately bugzilla is worse than difficult to use and now it's
> even harder to find out how to do that.

Bugzilla is a bug database. So what you have to do is filing a bug with
a description which allows developers (and QA people) to reproduce your
bug reliably. There is a detailed Howto in the wiki[1]. However, it's a
rather extensive description trying to cover most eventualities, so if
you have questions, please don't hesitate to ask them e.g. here.

[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport

Regards,
Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Retrieve a specific message from the ML

[Nino Novak]

Am 13.10.2013 20:24, schrieb Ady:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to retrieve a specific message from the mailing list (so 
> to reply to it), by sending an empty message to
>  " users+ge...@global.libreoffice.org " 
> 
> as per the help from " users+h...@global.libreoffice.org ".
> 
> I have already sent a mail according to the specific msg number I 
> want to retrieve, but have not received an answer.
> 
> If the msg number would be, say, 12345, is
>  " users+get-12...@global.libreoffice.org " 
> 
> the correct address? Or, am I doing something wrong?

Looks fine.

I just tried it with your mail and it worked (but took rather long,
about 5 minutes)

Are you sure you are subscribed to the list?

Are you sending from your subscription address?

Did you choose an appropriate N ? E.g. for your mail, to which I'm
actually responding, it's the 34301 - the number from the Return-path
header line.

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Feature Request: Lack of Outliner Functionality a Deal Breaker for Me

[Nino Novak]

Am 11.10.2013 00:09, schrieb CougarB:

> It's like having a Super Power that's available to everyone, but no one
> knows how to get it.

Without being a writer myself, I somehow understand your needs.

What I do presently is using a mind mapping software (I use freemind[1]
for that) for arranging and rearranging stuff. This works quite to my
satisfaction but when finished, the whole composition has to be
transferred to LibreOffice: this also works quite well but then it
remains static from this point on. So if I want to re-arrange it, I have
to do it again in freemind.

It's a workaround.

Nino
[1] http://freemind.sourceforge.net

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Generate Unique List from Values in Column

[Nino Novak]

Joel,

Am 08.10.2013 19:43, schrieb Joel Madero:

> Suggestions appreciated as always

Do you *have* to use LibreOffice for that?

(I find it sometimes quicker to just export the data list into a text
file and do a "sort -u" on it)

Nino


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[libreoffice-users] mail merge does not send appropriate documents (was: Fwd: Regarding Mail Merge sending Document)

[Nino Novak]

Hi Shiv,

I can confirm the bug with LibreOffice 4.1.0.4 and 3.6.5.2.

Did you search bugzilla (http://bugs.freedesktop.org) if it has been
reported already?

Regards,
Nino

Am 24.08.2013 07:15, schrieb Shiv Chauhan:
> Dear Sir,
> 
> I have created a document using mail merge and inserted data of 10 users by
> data source..
> 
> Name:-
> Mail ID:-
> Adderss:-
> Age:-
> 
> but when i sent this document to all employees on their mail id which is
> used in document.
> 
> full document sent on every id and every employee can read information of
> all Employee..
> 
> how to send a individual employee information  on individual emails in mail
> merge in openoffice..
> 
> pls help me ..
> 
> With regards
> Shiv
> 



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[libreoffice-users] Re: Formulas in text instead of result - LO Calc

[Nino Novak]

Am 23.08.2013 13:57, schrieb David Stuckey:
> I have inadvertently turned on an 'Option' in LO-Calc that now results in
> the text of any/all formulae being written in the result cell instead of
> the actual result.  Please can anybody help me to turn it off again?

Look here:
https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Displaying_Formulas_or_Values

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[libreoffice-users] Re: how to stop text resizing with window

[Nino Novak]

Am 21.08.2013 22:59, schrieb Dave Howorth:
> On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 16:33 +0200, Nino Novak wrote:
>> Am 20.08.2013 22:52, schrieb Dave Howorth:
>>> I just imported and opened a CSV file into calc. When I resize the
>>> window, instead of being able to see more columns, the text displayed in
>>> the cells increases in size and I see exactly the same columns. I've
>>> never seen this happen before. How/why did it happen and how do I make
>>> it keep the font size constant and show me more columns? Looking in the
>>> help and searching the web haven't helped me.
>>
>> Strange behavior, never seen that.
>>
>> Which version of LibreOffice do you use?
>> On which Platform/Operating System?
> 
> This is LibreOffice 3.4.2 OOO340m1 (Build:1206)
> 
> openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64)
> 
> Linux piglet 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-12-13 11:13:53
> +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Yes, I know it's all rather old.

Yepp.

Did you try a newer version?

I don't know if this problem is caused by LibreOffice itself or by the
underlying window manager (or by a bad interaction between the two), but
it's always worth testing a newer LibreOffice version. I'd prefer a
Vanilla version from www.libreoffice.org to a distribution's version,
because the latter in most cases has been slightly modified.

The closest bug description I found is
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68168
which happens to be also occuring on Linux.

And the CSV files, do they happen to be huge?

Regards,
Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: how to stop text resizing with window

[Nino Novak]

Am 20.08.2013 22:52, schrieb Dave Howorth:
> I just imported and opened a CSV file into calc. When I resize the
> window, instead of being able to see more columns, the text displayed in
> the cells increases in size and I see exactly the same columns. I've
> never seen this happen before. How/why did it happen and how do I make
> it keep the font size constant and show me more columns? Looking in the
> help and searching the web haven't helped me.

Strange behavior, never seen that.

Which version of LibreOffice do you use?
On which Platform/Operating System?

Do you have any Accessibility helpers installed?

Regards,
Nino


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Sequentially numberted tickets...

[Nino Novak]

Am 21.08.2013 15:54, schrieb Nino Novak:
> Am 21.08.2013 06:42, schrieb David Love:

>>> 7. Print as mailmerge (or form letter or whatever it's called) into 1
>>> document
>>
>> I do this by Printing to file.  The first ticket is correct.  Tickets number
>> 2, 3 and 4 are not numbered.  It then goes to the next page where the first
>> ticket is numbered 2 and the other three are not numbered.  And so it goes
>> on until the end of the records.  Each page is the next number.
> 
> then the "Next Record" fields seem to not work, see below.

Oh, I think here I draw the wrong conclusion: If the field numbers are
"empty" then only the number fields from the first ticket have been
correctly inserted, the other fields must be somehow wrong.

However - make the fields visible with Ctrl+F9 (or View > Field Names)
then look what's wrong with them :-)

BTW: If you want a preview of the resulting Merged Document on the fly,
you can select a couple of rows in the F4 data source window (click on
the first row, then shift-click on the tenth row or so, so that they are
all marked blue) and click on the "Data to fields" button in the data
source window.

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Sequentially numberted tickets...

[Nino Novak]

Hi David,

Am 21.08.2013 06:42, schrieb David Love:

>> 6. after every SECOND field enter "next record" switch (Insert > field >
>> others > database > next record) but NOT after the fourth ticket (as a
>> page break always triggers a next record switch)
> 
> This is where I've gone wrong and I cannot figure out how.  As I understood
> it, on the stub and ticket of tickets number 2, 3, 4, I do what you suggest
> above.  Is that correct?

Not quite.

If - as I understand your description - you have the following design:

+---+---+
|   :   |
| stub1 : ticket1   |
|   :   |
+---+---+
|   :   |
| stub2 : ticket2   |
|   :   |
+---+---+
|   :   |
| stub3 : ticket3   |
|   :   |
+---+---+
|   :   |
| stub4 : ticket4   |
|   :   |
+---+---+

and you put your ticket number fields sequentially from top left to
bottom right, i.e. first into stub1, then into ticket1, then stub2, then
ticket2, and so on, then the first "Next Record" field has to be put
after the number field in ticket1, but before the number field in stub2,
the second one after ticket2/before stub3, and so on. So number fields
in tickets 1, 2, and 3 should be followed by a Next Record field, while
in ticket 4 it should not.

At least that's how it works for me.


> and then, as it will be a new page, the numbering will continue in sequence
> until we reach the end of the records.  Is that correct

Yes - it's sufficient to design just one page, the following pages
should be created automatically the same way if data are left over after
the first page has been printed.


>> 7. Print as mailmerge (or form letter or whatever it's called) into 1
>> document
> 
> I do this by Printing to file.  The first ticket is correct.  Tickets number
> 2, 3 and 4 are not numbered.  It then goes to the next page where the first
> ticket is numbered 2 and the other three are not numbered.  And so it goes
> on until the end of the records.  Each page is the next number.

then the "Next Record" fields seem to not work, see below.

> 
> I notice that when I have Next Record highlighted and click Insert, all that
> happens is a thin grey vertical line appears where I click.  I would have
> thought the words  would have appeared.  Am I wrong?

By default, these fields are just rendered as those thin lines. To make
full field names visible, you must press Strg+F9 (or toggle "View >
Field Names"). When done, the fields should look something like "Next
record:FileName.TableName" (where FileName and TableName are the file
and table name you chose in steps 1-3). Here is where you can control if
there are any errors. It's a bit boresom as subsequent fields do not
have any space or delimiter in between, so if you by mistake inserted
multiple fields, it will look a bit confusing. But you can simply delete
a field, then you will know where it had started and ended :-)

Note that the field name must contain the correct database and table
names to work properly. If it does not, delete it and insert it anew.
Take care to have the correct data source open (I always leave it open
in the F4 subwindow during the whole procedure).


>> 8. review the document and if necessary correct&repeat some of the above
>> steps
> 
> I am at a loss as to what I should do next.

After making field names visible as described above, you should
understand how it works.


>> 9. print the merged documents,
>>
>> 10. enter perforation (I use a sewing machine, works perfectly if you use
>> a thin needle and adjust the step width appropriately)
>>
>> 11. cut tickets apart :-)
>>
>> Enjoy learning ;-)
>  
> My enjoyment is leading to "grinding of teeth in frustration"

You've almost reached the goal, there's only one small step left.
Now don't give up, this will not help reducing frustration.
Only if you succeed, you will get satisfaction ;-)

What reminds me to ask you, which version of LibreOffice you are using
and on which Operating System - just to exclude that you use a buggy
version.

Regards,
Nino

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[libreoffice-users] shifting focus to licencing (was: connecting to oooforum.org)

[Nino Novak]

Am 14.08.2013 18:39, schrieb Dave Barton:
> Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
>>
>> On 08/13/2013 02:32 AM, Dave Barton wrote:
>>> 1. http://www.oooforum.org The independent "unofficial" one Jim was
>>> referring to. For reasons nobody has been able to explain, their server
>>> is at best unreliable and frequently times out.
>> oooforum was setup and is controlled by a single very busy person with
>> no help from anyone else in any way. So, it uses resources available to
>> this person and is maintained by this person. The other forum is
>> maintained by a group of volunteers so there are more people to fix it.

so this looks to me like people have contributed to a site which took
their knowledge but later did (or does) not present it back to the
public in a satisfactory way.

Two thoughts:

1 - Does the owner sufficently understand the public need for high
availability of the forum's content?

2 - How is the forum's content licenced?

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Sequentially numberted tickets...

[Nino Novak]

Hi David,

Am 08.08.2013 06:53, schrieb David Love:
> I have been asked to design and print numbered tickets for an event being
> organised by a Club to which my wife belongs.  

How I'd do it (it's from memory, so bear with me for little glitches):

1. Set up a Calc spreadsheet and enter a header (e.g."number") and the
desired numbers (1 to 150 or even 001 to 150 by chosing a custom number
format with two preceeding zeroes) into a column

2. design a nice text page with all 4 tickets in it (you could also try
going with labels but for just 4 tickts per page I'd rather go with
copy&paste instead of fumbling with labels)

3. assign the spreadsheet from #1 as data source (for later use as
mailmerge, from memory: File > New > Database > connect to existing >
spreadsheet)

4. on your above designed ticket page, press F4 to open the spreadsheet
from above as data source

5. enter (simply drag&drop) column header field into the appropriate
place in stub and repeat this for the ticket

6. after every SECOND field enter "next record" switch (Insert > field >
others > database > next record) but NOT after the fourth ticket (as a
page break always triggers a next record switch)

7. Print as mailmerge (or form letter or whatever it's called) into 1
document

8. review the document and if necessary correct&repeat some of the above
steps

9. print the merged documents,

10. enter perforation (I use a sewing machine, works perfectly if you
use a thin needle and adjust the step width appropriately)

11. cut tickets apart :-)

Enjoy learning ;-)

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Sorry (was: help)

[Nino Novak]

my request went to the wrong list :--(

Nino


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[libreoffice-users] help

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Does LO Writer converts (internally) any format other than .odt to .odt when it wants to open such files?

[Nino Novak]

Am 06.08.2013 21:55, schrieb Sina Momken:

> ... does LO Writer
> converts files to .odt when it tries to open them or it can directly
> work with formats other than .odt like .doc and .docx?

I think no software "works" directly with a file format. Files are
"frozen data streams", they are static. Any data bits from the file get
"imported" into the software which stores them into its internal
variables, arrays, objects, and more, then it works with them and after
that stores the result again in the file.

So there is always some kind of import "translation" of data when a
software "opens" (i.e. reads) the file (resp. export translation when
writing it).

However, in the "native" format (as is odf for LibreOffice), this
translation mostly goes 1:1 as the file format is chosen to support the
software's needs best (or vice versa).

In contrast, for other (i.e. non-native) formats, the software first has
to convert the "foreign" data format into what it understands. This is
done by import resp. export filters, which map the software's needs to
file format givens and thus allows the software to "understand" foreign
formats.

Does this answer your question? Or did you mean something completely
diffferent? Why did you ask this question?

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: QA Triage Contest

[Nino Novak]

Am 15.07.2013 19:18, schrieb Tom Davies:

> Errr, that graph is rather confusing me.  It's good when it dips lower,
> right?  Although could that be bad in some way?  Does it mean less bugs
> being reported? 

That's correct, so ideally the chart should simultaneously show the # of
bugs reported.

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: QA Triage Contest

[Nino Novak]

Am 15.07.2013 13:40, schrieb Bjoern Michaelsen:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 06:36:29PM +0200, Nino Novak wrote:
>> can we see the effect graphically?
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/reports.cgi?product=LibreOffice&datasets=UNCONFIRMED

Yep, nice - thanks :)

Though, a significant decline seems to have started in April already.

Keep on!

Nino


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[libreoffice-users] Re: QA Triage Contest

[Nino Novak]

Am 11.07.2013 16:36, schrieb Joel Madero:
> Hi All,
> 
> So as you all know the contest is over and it was a great success. Just
> under 25% of the bug count dropped but substantially more bugs were
> triaged as we kept up with the daily demand on top of tackling older bug
> reports.

Joel,

can we see the effect graphically?

Cheers,
Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Paste of Dates Incorrect in Calc

[Nino Novak]

Am 12.05.2013 21:00, schrieb Oogie McGuire:

> In the first spreadsheet I  select the cells containing the dates I
> want. copy (command c) move to the spreadsheet where I want to paste
> them select the cells where they are to be pasted paste (command v)
> and the data is entered as a date but they have all changed what was
> 05/08/2005 in one sheep has become 05/09/2001 in the second sheet!


without knowing the reasons of your problem, and in addition what Brian
wrote, you could try the following:

As dates are represented internally by (integer) numbers, please select
the cells containing the dates before you copy them, and set the cell
format to "standard". Then all dates should turn into numbers.

What happens if you copy&paste those numbers to your new spreadsheet?

Do the numbers change?

If not, you can then select the target cells and format them as date -
and see if they are correct now.

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Download ?

[Nino Novak]

Am 10.05.2013 18:44, schrieb Carol Bamrick:

> I have been running the Libra Office Suite 3.3 and my startup file is
> "gone".  I would like to download the latest Libra Suite, my question
> is will the new Suite be compatible with my old Libre files?

LibreOffice is in general fully backward compatible.

If you encounter problems, please ask here again.

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: save table as reusable object

[Nino Novak]

Am 27.04.2013 19:04, schrieb Thomas Blasejewicz:

> Question:
> Is there a simple trick to make LO memorize this particular table form,
> so that I could call it up with a click?

Answer:
There is, with AutoText.

Steps to achieve:
1. Select the whole table
2. Edit > AutoText  (or Ctrl+F3)
3. Enter a name + shortcut for the AutoText (e.g. TableNote, tn)
4. Choose "New" on AutoText button
5. chose category (e.g. My AutoText)
6. Press Ok in Categories dialog
7. Press Close in AutoText dialog
done.

To enter the AutoText, enter its name or shortcut and press F3.

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: little known features in LO/OO?

[Nino Novak]

Am 17.04.2013 15:34, schrieb M. Fioretti:

> I'm looking for general inspiration (not necessarily pointers to
> specific examples, even if those are welcome too, of course) to write
> an article or two on this topic. What would you say is the **least**
> known feature of LO/OO? What is the thing that most often, when you
> suggest these suites to other people, makes them go "gee, I didn't
> imagine that!" ?

IIRC there was a Usage Survey in ancient OOo times. Maybe you could get
some interesting data about "rarely/unused functions" from some of the
people involved.

Nino


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Subject Header adds

[Nino Novak]

Am 31.03.2013 21:43, schrieb William Case:


I use evolution as my email browser.  With mail coming from the
LibreOffice users list [libreoffice-users] is tacked on to the subject
line.  In Evolution with side by side panes it makes the suject heading
too long to read.  None of my other mailing lists gives me this problem.
Is there away to stop [libreoffice-users] from being inserted/added.


I'm reading the lists via news.gmane.org (in a newsreader). Gmane drops 
the list name from the subject line.


Regards,
Nino




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[libreoffice-users] Re: Help with sorting a CSV file using LibreOffice Calc

[Nino Novak]

Am 14.03.2013 03:38, schrieb David Gulley:


... strange results when I try to execute the sort...



Does anyone know what might be causing this?


The first idea that came up to my mind is that unrecognized or 
misinterpreted EOL sequences might exist within the file.


If you have a \n sequence inside of a text field it might or might not 
be recognized as End of Line.


The same might happen if there are mixed Windows- Unix- or Mac-type EOL 
sequences (CR, CR/LF, or LF).


(Don't  know how to visualize them appropriately but you might succed in 
loading the file in writer and doing a search/replace.)


However, the above should not change the number of rows inside Calc as 
the presumed misinterpretation should have happend during Import/Export 
only - but not within Calc itself. But it might be worth a look.


Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Look for step-by-step guide

[Nino Novak]

Am 15.02.2013 03:26, schrieb C. H. D.:


I am new to debugging and programming. Referring to:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60710#c5

... do you have a debug symbols build you could run valgrind in to see if there 
is some memory corruption there ?

What documents should I consult to help me to understand what to do?

Where is the step-by-step guide, especially for LibreOffice 4? (I need detailed 
steps.)


Did you read
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport ?

Especially, the section on extra info looks helpful:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport#Providing_extra_information_for_the_developers_-_ADVANCED

HTH,
Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: [Writer] Regular expressions

[Nino Novak]

Am 08.01.2013 21:11, schrieb gordom:

W dniu 2013-01-08 20:20, Mirosław Zalewski pisze:

Since LibreOffice regex engine is crippled and don't support
lookaheads, the
short answer is:
no, you can't do that.


That's a pity.


but only if it's really true ;-)



BUT do lines you want to delete happen to fall into some common
pattern? In
your sample (which may or may not be representative for entire text) they
does. In fact you want to delete all lines that start with number
followed by
letter. You can use this regexp to match these lines:

^[0-9]+.*



Unfortunately my sample wasn't very accurate and can't be regarded as
fully representative. The pattern is more complex actually.


Then you should try to show a better example as Regex are pattern 
matching and without knowing the pattern we cannot guess how to match it ;-)


Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: [Writer] Regular expressions

[Nino Novak]

Am 08.01.2013 19:58, schrieb gordom:

Set:   01SA34509
0109SA
011017B
01020207B
010902B
01090002
011007B
01090001
090110
Set:   0134501
011101
01110102
01110103
080908
Set:   0111679SE
0111SE


Search for: ^[^Ss]
Replace with: (leave empty)
[x] Regular expression

works fine for me (LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 on win-32)

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Where is the error log?

[Nino Novak]

Am 29.12.2012 08:25, schrieb C. H. D.:


Sometimes, when LibreOffice starts and freezes, where should I locate
the error log for troubleshooting?


AFAIK there's no built-in log feature.

But you can do a backtrace, see


Regards,
Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: how i can rotate print like landscape?

[Nino Novak]

Hi,

did you try to first export to PDF and then print this PDF with acrobat or some
other pdf printer? It sometimes can work better than printing directly.

Nino


Am 04.09.2012 17:41 schrieb manuel_songo...@yahoo.it:
> hello
> 
> i use calc LibreOffice 3.5:build-413, with opensuse 12.1 and KDE 4.8.5.
> 
> my page format is: A4 landscape (horizontal), this is OK
> but
> for print : need to rotate left or right (90 degree ) to vertical for print..
> 
> 1-see my screenshot A.png this is a normal my job page format is 
> landscape.
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5440392/forum/libreoffice/A.png
> 
> 2-see my screenshot B.png this is my dream resolve for print, this is 
> possible?
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5440392/forum/libreoffice/B.png
> 
> 
> 3-i did try print lanscape from libreoffice printer
> see my screenshot C.png, this is default config printer from libreoffice...
> 
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5440392/forum/libreoffice/C.png
> 
> 
> but my printed paper is problem see my screenshot:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5440392/forum/libreoffice/out-printed.png
> 
> then my printer is RICOH and i did send report for problem (not work 
> lanscape) but ricoh is not speed reply.. but i need urgent to print 568 
> copies so I NEED ROTATE PRINT, can LIBREOFFICE helps my problem??
> 
> thank you
> 


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Find and replace graphics

[Nino Novak]

Hi timecode,

Am 29.08.2012 15:25 schrieb timecode:

> I save copies of essays from a scientific database. This database adds a
> little graphic to each footnote. I want to erase all these graphics from my
> documents. But how can I do that?

If there are no other graphic elements that you want to be shown, you can
comletely disable graphic display (Tools > Options > LibreOffice Writer > View >
Display)


> Is there an option that enables me to select all identical objects within
> the document after I selected one?

If you want to jump from graphics to graphics for deleting, you can use the
Navigator (F5). It's not ideal, but a bit quicker than manual navigation.

Nino



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[libreoffice-users] Re: Warning Message

[Nino Novak]

Am 25.08.2012 21:06 schrieb Tinkerer:
> Trying to find my User folder, I find that the whole of the Mac User Library
> is missing.
> A search for the folder, or any folder known to be within that folder, draws
> a blank.
> Looking back in Time Machine I can see I have been without it since August
> 23rd, two days.
> I tried to Restore it, but failed, as some form of Synchronization was in
> progress.
> Now I am at a loss.

In normal ;-) OSes when you restart LO without a user folder, LO will create a
new one. I don't know however, how this is handled in a MAC environment. Maybe
there is a permissions problem?

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: Warning Message

[Nino Novak]

Am 25.08.2012 21:06 schrieb Tinkerer:
> Trying to find my User folder, I find that the whole of the Mac User Library
> is missing.
> A search for the folder, or any folder known to be within that folder, draws
> a blank.
> Looking back in Time Machine I can see I have been without it since August
> 23rd, two days.
> I tried to Restore it, but failed, as some form of Synchronization was in
> progress.
> Now I am at a loss.

In normal ;-) OSes when you restart LO without a user folder, LO will create a
new one. I don't know however, how this is handled in a MAC environment. Maybe
there is a permissions problem?

Nino



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[libreoffice-users] Re: How to remove a bug report attachment?

[Nino Novak]

Hi,

Am 24.08.2012 12:41 schrieb Bjørn K Nilssen:

> I guess that after I added the bug comment I'll have to wait a few days to see
> if anything happens?

Nobody will read this comment.

> I also sent a mail/request to that listwrangler@.. address.

hopefully you used the right destination address (it's sitewranglers@..., not
listwranglers...)


> Problem is that I was contacted by one of those whose data was now made 
> public,
> wondering how this could have happened, as I've told everybody that info on
> living persons would not be made public.
> It is quite embarassing..

Internet *is* public and therefore should be used with care.

Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Re: How to remove a bug report attachment?

[Nino Novak]

Am 24.08.2012 03:01 schrieb Bjørn K Nilssen:
> I just discovered that a rtf file I attached as an example file when I 
> reported
> a bug with rtf imports losing the register tags is now *very* available when
> doing a Google search.
> The problem is that this file was never meant to be public, as it contains a
> short genealogical report with living people in it. This is not even legal to
> publish on the net.
> I never thought that such file attachements would be made publicly 
> available!!!
> 
> How is it possible to get this RTF file removed/deleted?
> 
> The bug was fixed BTW..

You might want to contact the Service Maintainers via the
sitewrangl...@lists.freedesktop.org
Mailing List.

I assume that you don't need to be subscribed to send them a mail, but if you
are not, it might take a while until your mail gets moderated.

List info:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/sitewranglers

Cheers,
Nino





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[libreoffice-users] Re: Changes oddity

[Nino Novak]

Am 22.06.2012 07:57, schrieb Sandy Harris:


However, the window that opens for Changes->accept/reject has
gone to full screen and I cannot get it back so that I can see the
text in order to decide on what to do with changes. It covers the
whole text window.


Two suggestions:

1- click somewhere inside the Accept/Reject window so it gets active, 
then press ALT+BLANK. In my setup this opens the window context menu, 
where you can select "Resize Window" (or similar). Then resize the 
window with mouse or arrow keys.


2- I don't know where the size of the Accept/Recjet window is actually 
stored. If somebody knows this place, you could try to edit this 
particular setting. If not, you can reset the whole user profile. Thus a 
new profile will be created from default.

See here for instructions how to reset the profile:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile

HTH,
Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Built-in Help vs. User Guides (was: Re: Inserting comment causes Impress to close without warning)

[Nino Novak]

On Friday 04 May 2012, 09:02:06 Alexander Thurgood wrote:

> Le 04/05/12 04:21, Tom Davies a écrit :
> 
> Let's face it, the built-in help system sucks

But OTOH, built-in Help is *very* helpful in certain situations IMHO. So, if 
one is looking for the exact syntax of a regex or if one wants to learn about 
how to use a calc function, it is first choice. 

So it has two aspects, the helpful one and the - how you put it - "sucking" 
one. 

So what we have to do is, 
* looking where we can improve the bad aspects
* trying to keep up the valuable aspects
* make people aware of *both* sides and help them adjusting their expectations 
to the reality: that will maximize their benefit.

Generalizations like "the help is bad, rather look into User Guides" are less 
helpfull.

User Guides have their uniqe role in helping people to understand certain 
principles / concepts, as they offer much more space for detailed & redundant 
descriptions. However they are "secondary products" often produced by "mere 
users" and thus there are two major "gaps" within them: the time gap, i.e. 
they "follow" development with a certain delay and, the accuracy gap, i.e. 
they can miss certain aspects or details or functions, just because they have 
been simply overseen or forgotten by the original writer of the guide. 

Therefore, I'd rather have us teaching people the difference between the 
possibilities of getting help than playing them off against each other and 
thus confusing people.

(And, yes, there are the bad aspects, too. They need improvement, of course.)

Regards,
Nino



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Get Built-in Help working (was: Re: Inserting comment causes Impress to close without warning)

[Nino Novak]

On Thursday 03 May 2012, 22:49:14 chimak111 wrote:
> Nino wrote
> 
> > ...
> > Did it install properly? Any strange messages? Did you shut down the
> > application during install?
> > 
> > If installed properly, it should work at the next application start.
> > (Maybe
> > you did not close all windows?)
> > 
> > Nino
> > ...
> 
> Nino, I had edited my last post to indicate that I got the built-in help to
> work just perfectly. But just for completeness, I'm replying here again.
> Thanks to everyone again!

Oh, sorry - I'm receiving the posts per mail so I wasn't aware one can edit a 
post. Where did you edit it? In Nabble? 

BTW, thanks for repeating your reply.

Nino



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Inserting comment causes Impress to close without warning

[Nino Novak]

On Thursday 03 May 2012, 22:20:08 Tom Davies wrote:

> Hi :)
> I don't think anyone is updating the built-in help so quite a few features
> might not be covered at all.

Dear Tom, 

why do you make such a general negative statement about the LibreOffice 
Community? It is demotivating for those who do the hard work. 

Therefore, please 
- try to be nice to Community members as that's the only value they receive,
- try to be constructive: if you find a topic not covered in the local help, 
please file a bug or send a mail.

Thanks. 

Regards,
Nino

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[libreoffice-users] Get Built-in Help working (was: Re: Inserting comment causes Impress to close without warning)

[Nino Novak]

On Thursday 03 May 2012, 10:33:15 chimak111 wrote:

> My last question which is strictly not related to
> this topic is how to get the built-in help to work. I downloaded that as
> well. (Thanks to everyone!)

Did it install properly? Any strange messages? Did you shut down the 
application during install? 

If installed properly, it should work at the next application start. (Maybe 
you did not close all windows?)

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Legacy Base reports won't open in LibreOffice 3.5

[Nino Novak]

On Thursday 03 May 2012, 22:16:37 Steve Edmonds wrote:

> Hi.
> Well I have only just moved from 3.3 to 3.4.6 (business environment). 3
> months stable performance and I consider the move. When the problem
> reports for 3.5 branch have eased off I will start my 3 month check period.

Which problem reports are you watching?

Regards,
Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Inserting comment causes Impress to close without warning

[Nino Novak]

On Thursday 03 May 2012, 04:20:07 chimak111 wrote:

> LibreOffice 3.5.2.2 Build ID: 350m1(Build: 202) on Ubuntu 12.04. As soon as
> one clicks Insert, Comment, Impress closes without any visible error.
> Instead of using the mouse, even the keyboard combination of control+Alt+C
> is enough to cause the problem.
> Reported here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11899154&postcount=261
> and some subsequent posts

Could you try a 'Vanilla' Version (from download.libreoffice.org)?

If still crashing, could you report details in bugzilla?

see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48325

Thanks,
Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [3.5.1.2/Calc/XP] Regex to find/replace numbers?

[Nino Novak]

On Thursday 03 May 2012, 08:26:05 Steve Edmonds wrote:

> Hi. Do you know if you can use the find text in the replace field as in
> perl.
> Search for  ([:digit:]){2}\/ ([:digit:]){2}\/([:digit:]){4}
> Replace with $3-$1-$2

Sure you can.

F1 (Help) in the Search dialog points you to the list of regex'es. 

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] SOLVED! (was: Wanted: Macro for removing Page Breaks in MailMerge docs)

[Nino Novak]

Thanks, Paul.

However, my question has been answered by Andrew yesterday. Unfortunately I 
did not change the subject line, so I'm doing it now for clarification.

Cheers
Nino

On Wednesday 02 May 2012, 13:24:29 Paul D. Mirowsky wrote:

> If you are looking to have more than one record on a page, look into the
>  command
> Writer automatically assumes next record = next page when merging.
> 
> Adding  after last field entered, begins repeat of fields
> on same page.
> 
>  From menu , select "next record".
> 
> Suppose you have a set of fields.  F1, F2 and F3 in a table.  Add F1, F2
> and F3 on every table row.
> At the end of each row in the table, add   field after F3.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> On 5/1/2012 4:25 PM, Nino Novak wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > when producing MailMerge text documents, semi-automatic Page Breaks are
> > inserted which can only be removed manually one by one, but not "all
> > together" by e.g. selecting the whole document (Ctrl+A) and removing
> > Page Breaks in the Format Paragraph dialog.
> > 
> > XML shows that paragraphs with page breaks are different from paragraphs
> > without page breaks, they bear the name "P4":
> > 
> >  > 
> > In the automatic styles section, P4 has the following property:
> > 
> >  > 
> >...
> > 
> > which - I suppose - is responsible for the page break before this
> > paragraph.
> > 
> > Questions:
> > - Can anybody tell me, why in these "automatic" type styles the page
> > break cannot be removed with Strg+A but only one by one?
> > - Can anybody give me a hint how to write a Macro which removes those
> > page breaks? (If it's possible at all - in Spreadsheets there seems to
> > be a function which does a similar job[1], but the described problem
> > might need a bit more sophisticated proceeding).
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Nino
> > [1]
> > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=41794

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Re: [libreoffice-users] [3.5.1.2/Calc/XP] Regex to find/replace numbers?

[Nino Novak]

Am Mittwoch, 2. Mai 2012, 14:05:21 schrieb Nino Novak:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 02 May 2012, 04:18:20 Gilles wrote:
> > I need to search and reformat toll-free numbers in a spreadsheet, but I
> 
> > can't find how to do this in Calc:
> Sorry, could you elaborate a bit, what you mean by toll-free numbers? Some
> examples?
> 
> > " (\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)"
> 
> This regex will find text like " 123456", not numbers (as numbers are
> numbers and do not contain blanks)

Sorry, as I'm working with text mostly, I've overseen that \d is not the 
correct syntax for digits. Pressing Help (or F1) in the search dialog, you'll 
find a link to the List of Regular Expressions. There you can see, that a 
digit is represented by [:digit:], not by \d. So you might have to search for 
" ([:digit:]{2}.){2}[:digit:]{2}" or similar (without the double quotes).

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] [3.5.1.2/Calc/XP] Regex to find/replace numbers?

[Nino Novak]

Hi,

On Wednesday 02 May 2012, 04:18:20 Gilles wrote:

> I need to search and reformat toll-free numbers in a spreadsheet, but I
> can't find how to do this in Calc:

Sorry, could you elaborate a bit, what you mean by toll-free numbers? Some 
examples? 


> " (\d\d)(\d\d)(\d\d)"

This regex will find text like " 123456", not numbers (as numbers are numbers 
and do not contain blanks)

 
> ie. space + six digits in pairs.

what do you mean by "pairs"? The above regex does not find any kind of 
"pairs". 

So, I'm a bit clueless, what you want to search really.

Nino

 


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Wanted: Macro for removing Page Breaks in MailMerge docs

[Nino Novak]

Am Dienstag, 1. Mai 2012, 18:54:05 schrieb Dan Lewis:
> On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 00:36 +0200, Nino Novak wrote:
> > Hi Drew,
> > 
> > On Tuesday 01 May 2012, 18:22:04 drew jensen wrote:
> > > Hi Nino
> > > 
> > > I haven't tried this, but from reading the earlier email - the page
> > > break is injected with the use of a style, yes? Can't you just edit
> > > the
> > > style "P4" I think it was, so it doesn't create a page break?
> > 
> > Good thought.
> > 
> > However, I don't know how to alter this special style from the UI. It
> > does not show up in the styles dialog. Seems to be some special style
> > type. The mentioned style info is kept in the 
> > section in the content.xml, whatever this means.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Nino
> 
> LO documents are zipped files. Change the extension of the file
> from .odt to .zip. Then unzip it. The zipped file contains some files
> and some folders; one of these files is content.xml. It can be edited
> with an text editor. Search for  in the text
> editor. Without having an odt file with a page break in it, I can not
> make any further comments.

Dan,

that's exactly what I did (hence the detailed info in my first mail). But no 
chance to alter the page breaks from the UI. 

Thanks to all who replied!!! 

Good night,
Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Wanted: Macro for removing Page Breaks in MailMerge docs

[Nino Novak]

On Tuesday 01 May 2012, 19:10:29 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:

> AndrewMacro.odt
> 
> Read section "7.8.1 Removing Page Breaks"

Bingo! 

Thanks, Andrew - I knew there must be some magic that "just works" ;-)

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Wanted: Macro for removing Page Breaks in MailMerge docs

[Nino Novak]

Hi Drew,

On Tuesday 01 May 2012, 18:22:04 drew jensen wrote:

> Hi Nino
> 
> I haven't tried this, but from reading the earlier email - the page
> break is injected with the use of a style, yes? Can't you just edit the
> style "P4" I think it was, so it doesn't create a page break?

Good thought. 

However, I don't know how to alter this special style from the UI. It does not 
show up in the styles dialog. Seems to be some special style type. The 
mentioned style info is kept in the  section in the 
content.xml, whatever this means.

Regards,
Nino



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Wanted: Macro for removing Page Breaks in MailMerge docs

[Nino Novak]

Am Dienstag, 1. Mai 2012, 23:44:21 schrieb Andreas Säger:
> Am 01.05.2012 23:19, Nino Novak wrote:
> > I do not see how to achieve the desired result by mere dragging.
> 
> > E.g. with the included database Biblio, I can create the following 
Template:
> Well, you drag the desired row set into the new document.

? 

As said, I want a formatted output, and this cannot be achieved by mere 
dragging as there is text in between and different font styles are used.

> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/AltSearch can search
> page breaks.

Just tried. It says, "29 page breaks replaced" but they are still there, and 
you can rerun the search with the same result over and over. 

Any other ideas?

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Wanted: Macro for removing Page Breaks in MailMerge docs

[Nino Novak]

On Tuesday 01 May 2012, 22:56:15 Andreas Säger wrote:

> Am 01.05.2012 22:25, Nino Novak wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > when producing MailMerge text documents, semi-automatic Page Breaks are
> > inserted which can only be removed manually one by one, but not "all
> > together" by e.g. selecting the whole document (Ctrl+A) and removing
> > Page Breaks in the Format Paragraph dialog.
> > 
> > XML shows that paragraphs with page breaks are different from paragraphs
> 
> > without page breaks, they bear the name "P4":
> Drag your table or query from the data source window into the document.
> Choose to import text fields. There won't be any page breaks.

I do not see how to achieve the desired result by mere dragging. 

E.g. with the included database Biblio, I can create the following Template:

==

   by 
   , 
   ISBN: 
==


>From this template, a list is created by copying several instances of the same 
template until the end of the page, then mailmerging, i.e. printing the wanted 
records in a target document. At least that's how I do it. 

Nino




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[libreoffice-users] Wanted: Macro for removing Page Breaks in MailMerge docs

[Nino Novak]

Hi,

when producing MailMerge text documents, semi-automatic Page Breaks are 
inserted which can only be removed manually one by one, but not "all together" 
by e.g. selecting the whole document (Ctrl+A) and removing Page Breaks in the 
Format Paragraph dialog. 

XML shows that paragraphs with page breaks are different from paragraphs 
without page breaks, they bear the name "P4":

...

which - I suppose - is responsible for the page break before this paragraph.

Questions: 
- Can anybody tell me, why in these "automatic" type styles the page break 
cannot be removed with Strg+A but only one by one?
- Can anybody give me a hint how to write a Macro which removes those page 
breaks? (If it's possible at all - in Spreadsheets there seems to be a 
function which does a similar job[1], but the described problem might need a 
bit more sophisticated proceeding). 

Thanks,
Nino
[1] http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=41794

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Basic Package of LibreOffice to Download

[Nino Novak]

On Tuesday 01 May 2012, 06:06:43 Daniel Morgan wrote:

> Is it possible to have a "lite" version of LibreOffice that only includes
> the word processor and spreadsheet?  The other LibreOffice apps I do not
> use.

No, there is no "lite" version. As for the download size: I don't know the 
exact numbers, but about 80% of the total is common code used by all modules, 
and the rest is different for each module. So you would end up in having ~85% 
of the code for a single module - this does not really make sense.

 
> I understand the windows installer can allow me to pick and choose what
> apps I want to install, but this is after I have downloaded the big
> Windows Installer.

This installer is only for cosmetic reasons, I believe.

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] How do I link data from a LibreOffice Database (linked to a MySQL Server) to a LibreOffice Spreadsheet?

[Nino Novak]

Hi,

On Monday 30 April 2012, 19:25:38 Richard Quadling wrote:

> Any real help would be greatly appreciated.

Did you have a look at 
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=18511
?

Regards, 
Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] How i add gradient background in cell of libreoffice calc?

[Nino Novak]

On Thursday 26 April 2012, 16:30:29 manuel_songo...@yahoo.it wrote:

> ... gradient in cell CALC.. so for libreoffice has not
> feature gradient for cell libreoffice calc right? but future will be on it?
> for now  i need gradient in cell not texture or image ok? now i go to use
> office for gradient in cell...
> 
> but let me know if new feature gradient for cell in libreoffice ok? thank
> you

If you want to be notified, feel free to add yourself to cc list of this RFE:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49177

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: launching app from within base

[Nino Novak]

On Monday 23 April 2012, 07:17:55 brainflakes wrote:

> Mark Stanton wrote
> 
> >  What type of application, why, to do with what?
> 
> Simply to pass a path to an application (a filename, for instance) and
> launch that application.

Sorry, I don't know anything about Base - but in Writer you just insert a 
"Hyperlink", chose "Document" and enter a Document URL. If the document has a 
extension/MIMEtype/whatever which is known to the system, the default app will 
open the document. That's at least how it works here.

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Printint to PocketMod layout

[Nino Novak]

Am Montag, 23. April 2012, 05:21:35 schrieb BKh:
> Is there any way to print a document into the PocketMod booklet layout?

If you happen to use Linux, you can use psutils (psnup and psbook) to print 
such nice booklets. According to Google, there seems to be also a Windows 
version, but I did not try it.

If it can be done with LibreOffice, I don't know. But you can export to pdf 
and than print with Acrobat Reader (at least I think it's possible). 

Regards, 
Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Page Styles not consistent

[Nino Novak]

On Friday 20 April 2012, 10:14:51 Russ Mannex wrote:

> OK, never mind the previous post. It's still not working with the master
> doc, but I think I got it working now with just one odt file. It seems a
> bit buggy, and very temperamental, but I think if I keep sacrificing raw
> vegetables to the open source gods, things will continue to work.

Instead of raw vegetables please rather sacrifice a bit of your time and try 
to describe exactly in a bug report[1] what went wrong resp. how it could work 
better. So we all can profit not only the vegetarian gods ;-)

Regards, Nino
[1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems importing an OO database into LO

[Nino Novak]

On Friday 20 April 2012, 16:54:54 Pertti Rönnberg wrote:

> On 20.4.2012 11:00, MiguelAngel wrote:
> > One for you.
> > 
> > Much users even don't read the program's help...

> May I correct you, you do not need a license for driving a car...

Pertti, the problem is, that software usability today in most cases is still 
far from being intuitive. 

So the analogy with the car does not seem appropriate. Better take a Jumbo 
Jet's cockpit. Even if you don't want to fly it, but just to roll across the 
airport, you need to know awfully lots of things to move the plane. 

The challenge is to use LibreOffice despite of its shortcomings ;-)

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice/OpenOffice - bullets/numbering between Open* formats and MicroSoft

[Nino Novak]

On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:25:11 PM dcannell wrote:
> Although they are quite specific about saying LibreOffice wipes out
> OpenOffice when it installs?

Despite its name, the "parallel install" does not install the software but 
just copies the executables into the chosen directory. So nothing will be 
wiped out or changed. 

The only thing you have to take care is that your user profile does not get 
altered. For this you should tweak the UserInstallation line of the 
bootstraprc file as described *before* starting the application.

Regards,
Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice/OpenOffice - bullets/numbering between Open* formats and MicroSoft

[Nino Novak]

On Wednesday 11 April 2012, 11:30:23 dcannell wrote:

> My other issue is that with the OpenOffice that came native with my
> Ubuntu 10.04 I can't download LibreOffice for testing without blowing my
> OpenOffice away.

Try doing a parallel install:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Sending mail merged document to email

[Nino Novak]

On Wednesday 11 April 2012, 08:03:09 Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:

> On 09/04/2012 13:01, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:

> > [mail-merge problems]

> OK, if no-one's going to respond to this, where do I file a bug for this?


For Vanilla builds (i.e. downloaded from *.libreoffice.org), LibreOffice uses 
the FDO (free desktop org) bugtracker[1].

Instructions see Wiki[2].

For easier proceeding, you might want to use the Bug Submission Assistent[3].

If you use a (modified) distro build, you'll want to use your distro's 
tracker.


[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffice
[1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
[2] https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Figure Numbering disrupted in Master Document (LO 3.5)

[Nino Novak]

Ron,

On Friday 06 April 2012, 09:55:00 Ron Gregor wrote:

> Unfortunately for us we are still using Openoffice due to bugs with
> Libreoffice calc. Line 3.4.x has fixed a major stopper for us but 3.4.x and
> 3.5.x has added in enough "work around" bugs that we just decided to stay
> with Openoffice. So we wait for 3.5.x to fix most of these and for it to be
> the considered "stable" enough for business use.

Did you enter appropriate reports for these bugs? Are you  watching them? 
Did you escalate them appropriately so developers are really aware about them? 
(Without proper escalation, even very annoying bugs can stay unfixed for a 
long time.) 

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting emails

[Nino Novak]

On Saturday 24 March 2012, 12:27:57 e-letter wrote:

> Subsequent posts indicate why it is much easier to solve this question
> by use of a text editor instead of LO.


... and perhaps even in the shell using html2text, grep, sed, awk...
(as the OP asked for *automation* of the process) 

;-)

But still we should show that it's also doable with LibreOffice (and it's not 
that much more complicated). 

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting emails

[Nino Novak]

On Saturday 24 March 2012, 08:11:27 Dan Lewis wrote:

>  See if this works using Find and Replace with Regular Expressions
> checked (ticked): 

Dan, 

a very good step-by-step instruction. Did id make it into ask.libreoffice.org? 
IMHO you should enter it there as its visibility there can be better enhanced 
than in the list by tagging/honoring.

(just my 2¢ suggestion)

Nino


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Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting emails

[Nino Novak]

On Saturday 24 March 2012, 09:24:48 e-letter wrote:

> On a separate issue, what is the syntax in LO to select paragraph
> breaks (pilcrow (¶) sign) in the 'find and replace' dialogue window?

"$", see LibreOffice Help (F1) -> Index -> regular expressions.

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] CVE-2012-0337

[Nino Novak]

Hi Dan,

On Friday 23 March 2012, 08:53:54 Dan Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 08:10 -0400, drew jensen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 07:55 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:

>  ...  [vague security announcements]
>  What security issues? I'm not sure I know from what I read.

I tend to share your wish for a clearer information here.


>  Another thing that comes from trying to find this information: What
> is a link that I can use to list my concerns or other comments about the
> layout of the LO website?

As the project is self organized I'd suggest to raise your concerns in the 
website[1] list. There's also a more formal procedure to file an issue in 
bugzilla[2] (component WWW) 

HTH Nino

[1] webs...@global.libreoffice.org 
Discussions list covering the design and maintenance of our Web infrastructure 
(main website, wiki, blog, planet, etc.).
Subscription: website+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org
(I think you don't need to subscribe but then your mail takes longer as it has 
to be moderated before delivery)
(info taken from:http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/ )

[2] via assistant: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/ 
(choose component: WWW) or directly in bugzilla:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffice&component=WWW
For both you need a bugzilla account.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Install RPM as non-superuser

[Nino Novak]

Hi,

seems your message has been stripped by the List software, so I'm repeating it 
below for conveniance.

Nino

-- Forwared Message -
Date: Mar 22, 2012; 6:08pm 
From: Reinhard
To: users@global
Subject: Install RPM as non-superuser

Hi all,

I have been using Open/Libre Office under Linux since at least release
1.5, but there was an annoying problem during installation starting with
OpenOffice 2: As a rule, you must be superuser to install it (at least
for the RPM files). This can be critical. Once I had to write some
analysis in a company on a computer without any administrator available.
(It was a Linux machine with the broken OpenOffice 2.0 on it.) Happily,
I knew how to transform all the RPM's to a big tgz archive and carried
OpenOffice 2.1 as tgz with me. For simple usage, you only need the file
tree somewhere (locally), and you must know to call .../program/soffice to
start.

The shell script below does this transformation and expects a tar.gz
archive of RPM's from the official distribution as argument. It is more
or less straightforward but I remember that many people asked in a forum
what to do with alle the RPM's not being superuser (it *is* possible,
but you have to install your own package database). I know that there
are difficulties to offer such tgz packages because of upload speed of
contributors, but it could be possible to run this script on a server
after uploading the packages in recent form..

At least, I think it should be known (and what to do with the file
tree). A guy during the Linux Day in Chemnitz (Germany) recommended me
last weekend to put such instruction to the wiki. Before spamming, I
would like to ask the community if this is worth a wiki entry ... (I
have possibly one more item - a Python class to analyze and modify ODF
files without using LibreOffice, but I think this would be rather a
Python issue).

Best

Reinhard


#!/bin/bash
# transform LibreOffice-tgz to plain tgz
# Reinhard Wobst, @(#) Mar 20 2012, 14:02:58

case "$1" in
  (*.tar.gz) [[ -f "$1" ]] || { echo "\"$1\" not found!"; exit 1; };;
  ("") echo "missing argument"; exit 1;;
  (*) echo "illegal file name:", $1; exit 1;;
esac

origin=$PWD
tmpdir=$(mktemp -u --tmpdir=.)
mkdir $tmpdir
ln $1 $tmpdir
cd $tmpdir

tar xzf *
pkgname=$(ls | fgrep -v tar.gz)
cd $pkgname
cd RPMS

for i in *.rpm; do rpm2cpio $i | cpio -id; done
cd opt
tar czf $origin/${pkgname}_tgz.tar.gz *
cd $origin
rm -rf $tmpdir

echo "*** ${pkgname}_tgz.tar.gz created ***"
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Re: [libreoffice-users] [Calc] Bug in Search/replace with regexp

[Nino Novak]

On Tuesday 20 March 2012, 19:24:20 Ninj wrote:

> =INDIRECT(B10&".K14")+INDIRECT(B10&"DIRE")
> Something got wrong with the second replacement.

Looks like the second replacement is made on the correct position but the 
wrong cell content (i.e. already altered by the first replacement). 

Did you file a bug? 

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Address Books

[Nino Novak]

On Friday 16 March 2012, 15:00:41 Andreas Säger wrote:
> Am 16.03.2012 11:09, Nino Novak wrote:
> > It could be used as reference on how to use Base.
> 
> Well, this would be like a reference on how to use a programming
> language. Either you can actually use it or you follow more or less
> obscure instructions.

I rather thought of a reference implementation, not a language reference. 
A reference tutorial if you like :-)

A non-theoretical primer for people keen to learn to create (simple) 
databases. An initial nucleus ;-)


> > Don't you think, that this would help much more than saying, that it
> > requires expert skills?
> > 
> > Nino
> 
> It would really help if LibO would drop the entire Base component with
> address sources and everything, letting the user import raw spreadsheet
> data as embedded XML structures into serial letters. So they get a
> feeling of empowerment when they freely drag around, import and export
> their data copies. They would not even blame anyone for the results.
> An abstraction layer like Base is beyond user's imagination even though
> it can be used in very creative ways. Using software tools in creative
> ways is mere expert skill.

Erm - yes. However...

Sort of ... I'm the wrong person for this kind of discussion. I'm a simple 
user, who wants to learn, no, wait, who wants to create his own address book 
using LibreOffice. So please, talk to LibreOffice component architects (or who 
ever regards himself as appropriate person to discuss dropping components). 

But please help me to create my simple address book :-)

Nino

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Address Books

[Nino Novak]

On Friday 16 March 2012, 09:54:15 drew jensen wrote:

> Sure why not

:-)

 
> So you want to build this tutorial over this weekend.

At least make a serious attempt.
 

> Is it to be multi-user?

No. One computer only. (Can be expanded later)

Nino

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