Re: [libreoffice-users] Open LO files via IE Explorer

2015-07-14 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
On 2015/07/14 20:58, Rob Jasper wrote:
> Is this the same problem as described in the following thread?
>
> http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg45235.html 
>
> Rob.
>
>
No. IE Explorer does not stop working.
It is just: pointing the cursor at ANY LibreOffice file, anywhere, then
double-click or right-click -> open
results in the described LibreOffice error.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Open LO files via IE Explorer

2015-07-14 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
On 2015/07/14 23:00, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> On 07/14/2015 07:20 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
>> With "fail" I mean:
>> I have for example one Writer and one Calc file open. No errors at all,
>> just ordinary work.
>> Then I click on a WRITER/CALC file somewhere on my disks.
>> -> Nothing happens.
>> No matter what I try.
>> ...
>>
>> That part of the question points to a file association issue - Win8 does
>> not know that the LO documents should open LO when clicked. I do not
>> know if this will fix this in Win 8.1, except maybe you should try and
>> see if right clicking on the file and choosing an "open with" option and
>> choosing which application is associated with the file type. I hope
>> Win8.1 did not get rid of that option. I would use that that for XP,
>> Win7, and Linux. I do not have an Win8.x system, just Win7 [Home and
>> Pro] and Linux [Ubuntu and Linux Mint] systems to work with.
>>
File association IS set to LibreOffice (relevant files).
So, this does not help.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Last cursor position

2015-07-14 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2015/07/14 23:10, V Stuart Foote wrote:

Andreas Säger wrote

He wants co-editors to know the last edit position.
No. I have to work on specific files for days on end and DO have to 
close, reopen them several (many) times.

I don't care about co-editors (the people at the translation agencies).
All I want is to open the file at pecisely the point where I have left it.
Inserting a bookmark each and every time is LUMBERSOME, to put it mildly.

Yes, and having set some user ID and then saving, when the next 
collaborator opens the document (also with a user ID set) the "Restore 
Edit View" +F5 will reposition to the last edited position at 
save. 
I tried that for hours on end, but never could make the "Restore Edit 
View" work.

The cursor NEVER goes back to ANY former editing position.

The only user effort is assuring some User ID is set for each 
collaborating editor and that they don't conflict (or the new Manage 
Changes features will get confused).

MY user ID is definitely different from that of the agency.
Thomas


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Replace normal font with superscript of only a portion of a term

2015-07-29 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2015/07/29 16:09, Brian Barker wrote:

At 15:40 29/07/2015 +0900, Thomas Noname wrote:

Don't know. Indeed it shouldn't happen. Are you saving the documents 
in LibreOffice's native .odt format or (unwisely) in some foreign format?

ODT format. As pure as it comes.


There sure is. Search for "TM" and replace with "TM" (no quotes). Put 
the cursor in the "Replace with" field and click Format... . Under 
Position, select Superscript. You might not want to Replace All, or 
you will change things such as "uTMost"!


If I understand you correctly: there IS no way of replacing a string of 
characters with mixed formatting (like normal + superscript).


Incidentally, you very probably shouldn't be using two superscripted 
capital letters for this, but instead the single Unicode character 
"TRADE MARK SIGN" (U+2122), which you should find in all normal fonts. 
Find this at Insert | Special Character...; no need for superscripting.
I imagine that. However, xxxTM is the way the customer itself specifies 
its product - as a registered trademark.

Would it be permissible (for me) to change that?

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Re: [libreoffice-users] copy cell format

2015-09-18 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2015/09/18 20:17, Jim Quinn wrote:
Sorry for just replying to email vs getting into LO and answering.  
Just too busy with huge biking event this weekend and am new using LO 
forums.


That said, if I understand that you want to copy the data from 1 
spread sheet file (1 or more rows/columns) and paste just the data 
into a file with different column/row formatting, then use the "Paste 
Special" option and only check the items in the "Paste Special" pop-up 
menu that you want.  Do not check "Format" and the column/row format 
will remain unchanged.


Of course, the number of rows/columns you paste into should equal what 
you copied.


-Original Message- From: Thomas
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 4:02 AM
it ALWAYS comes out with equal column width (+ the default height of the
new document).

Styles do not help either (as far as I can tell), since I could not find
any tab there, where I can specify column width + height.
Thomas

No, it is just the other way around.
I want to copy a formatted row with column headers into a blank document.
AND I want the copied row look in the new document exactly as it was in 
the original document.

THAT is something Calc does not seem to be able to do.
I just tried that trick with Excel (which I usually do not use any 
longer) - and it works there almost as easy as in Lotus123.


I believe this operation cannot be so tremendously difficult, that it is 
sheer impossible to accomplish (in Calc) ...

Thomas


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[libreoffice-users] MS Word compatability

2015-09-27 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
Good evening
I just noticed something trying to open a ".doc" file a translation
agency sent me.
It contains Japanese characters and some German words/short text portions.
Opening the file in Word 2013 (don't have any other version) shows these
characters neatly separated.
Opening the same file with Writer, the text portions of adjacent
Japanese/German overlap.
One character width to be precise.

Is there a trick to correct this behavior?

Maybe related:
I was working on a different file (.docx) received from an agency. I
opened the original Word file with Writer and
saved it each time in .docx format. When I delivered the file, however,
the agency called me back and said,
they cannot open the file. I tried that on my own computer: opening the
Writer saved .docx file with Word
and got an error message, saying the file is broken. Something about an
xml code.
Saving the file as .doc resolved the problem. (file size increased by 350%)
Is that related to the above problem?
If so, what should I do to prevent this kind of problem?
(it makes me very unpopular with the translation agencies ...)

Thank you
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] blurred display

2015-09-27 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
Good evening
After Windows XP all Windows versions, AND all the Linux versions I have
tried too, are obsessed with making the display of screen fonts
as blurred and ugly as possible. Dozen of hours searching the net,
asking the technical support of my computers, asking computer specialist ...
led to the conclusion: there is NO way to fix this.

Here one "question" related to Calc.
I use Calc regularly. But I also use on my old computers Lotus123.
(I know, it is very old and "discontinued". That does not prevent it
from being VERY helpful and good.
In some ways much better than Calc, Excel or any other spreadsheet
application I know of.)

On a Windows XP machine:
Lotus123 line graph -> individual data points represented as squares
(the computers choice, not mine);
* these little squares in Lotus 123 have clear, distinct vertical and
horizontal borders.
A similar graph, with similar squares in Calc has "shadows" around 2 of
the four sides = disappearance/display is blurred.
Since the display is made of little squares anyway, what exactly is the
advantage of having the display blurred???
If Lotus123 CAN display these squares like they would look when printed
in a book,
why can't Calc do that???
Computer, monitor, OS etc. ... everything else is the same, I presume
nobody can blame my monitor, graphic card or whatever.

Is there any way of telling Calc (preferably LibreOffice in general!) of
displaying clear, distinct images (graphics, characters .. everything)?

Thank you.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] blurred display

2015-09-28 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
On 2015/09/28 6:06, Jim Quinn wrote:
> Is your page-style set for "shadows"?

No. It is set to "no shadows".

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: blurred display

2015-09-28 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2015/09/28 22:16, Andreas Säger wrote:

Am 27.09.2015 um 15:00 schrieb Thomas Blasejewicz:

A similar graph, with similar squares in Calc has "shadows" around 2 of
the four sides = disappearance/display is blurred.


[Solved] Fuzzy / blurry appearance on Windows 8.1

https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=65958


Thank sounds interesting. Trying this on new computer running 
LibreOffice 4.4.3. under Windows 10, however, does not produce any 
change I can discern.

I will try the XP machine tomorrow (it is in my office).


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Re: [libreoffice-users] blurred display

2015-10-02 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2015/09/30 15:25, Philip Goodfellow wrote:

anti-aliasing


Is there any chance you could give me a hint as to how to do that?

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word compatability

2015-10-02 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2015/10/02 2:39, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :)
anyway.  However, posting a bug-report about how well/badly certain formats
are read in LibreOffice helps improve the program/suite in a practical way
for all of us :)

I never did file a bug report and am not sure I am "up to it", but I 
will try to find my way through that rather confusing

computer jargon jungle.
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] Calc cell formats

2015-10-02 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
Good evening
I do have (naturally) a number of spread sheets.
One is a list of my patients.
It includes columns with name, sex, age, date of birth etc.

I did create a page style, where I tried to set "numbers" to standard
(because there are NO decimals!)
and "date" to "1999/02/10".

(the file originally was a Lotus123 file, saved in Excel 2003 format,
read with Calc and then saved as ODS)
However, when I apply that style, the "date" which had been
unintelligible 5-digit numbers changes to the
specified format, but at the same time columns with the age of patients
(TWO digits, no calcuations whatsoever)
and consecutive numbers switch to a row of three # =because they are to
narrow to display the "1900/02/10) inserted.
What is this nonsense all about???
Why is the age of a person (e.g. 33) be replaced by a nonsense date?

Also, while I specified the date as given above, opening the very same
file under kubuntu, it suddenly is reverse to 02/10/1999. Why?

AND the style I specified does not seem to be retained.
When I close the file and reopen (in particular if this is on another
computer) it, the settings seem to have vanished.

Thank you.
Thomas



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Re: [libreoffice-users] double brackets

2015-12-13 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2015/12/13 21:26, Brian Barker wrote:


In the Find & Replace dialogue, click More Options. You probably have 
"Regular expressions" ticked. Untick it and try again.

I DID try that in my office, but had no success. Now back home that worked.
Thank you.


The "same" applies to searching for "," and replace that by "." (of 
course, none of these searches uses the ")


Remember that what you see in a spreadsheet cell may very well not be 
there! If those commas are fractional separators in numbers - e.g. 
1,23 - they are not there in the same sense as then would be as text. 
The details of this depend on your locale settings.


I see. That is very enlightening!
Setting the language under "Format cells" -> "numbers" to German now 
switches SOME (but not all) numbers like

"50,000" to "50.000"
(Some) Numbers appeaing on the screen as "5" do not change at all.

The latter one being the German localization.
I am still fighting with the problem, that this works in some cells, but 
not all (probably because of the format of the entered data?).
It would be helpful to find a way change the thousand separator for "," 
to "." and
the decimal separator the other way around, because there are quite 
literally thousands of items that need to be changed that way ...


(But it is 2:30 am now and I think, I will continue trying tomorrow)
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] double brackets

2015-12-13 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2015/12/14 3:27, Brian Barker wrote:

At 02:16 14/12/2015 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

Values that *appear* as the examples above may be stored as numbers or 
as text. It is worth considering carefully what your data should be. 
Many data items that look like numbers are in fact text strings that 
happen to consist only of digits. Telephone numbers and numeric 
postcodes are examples. The last four digits of my telephone number 
are 4852. No-one would pronounce that "four thousand, eight hundred 
and fifty-two". Someone else will have the same number but ending 
2426. Does his telephone ring half as loud or half as often as mine? 
Of course not. Telephone numbers and postcodes can also start with a 
zero, which in these cases is significant, unlike leading zeroes in 
numbers. My telephone area code is 020: that's not "twenty". If your 
bank PIN was set (unwisely) to 0123, you could not get money out of an 
ATM using "123" or "00123". Nor do you get more money by having a 
"larger" PIN. James Bond was not Agent Seven (despite what UK 
telephone directories believe).


It is possible - probably very easy - to enter similar data as a 
mixture of different types. If your "decimal separator" is set one way 
but you enter numeric data containing the alternative, it will be 
interpreted as text - or perhaps even as a date. Data prepared in a 
different locale may not be as it appears. There are two simple ways 
to guide you to see the nature of your data:


o Set the horizontal alignment to Default. You can click whichever 
alignment button is selected in the Formatting toolbar to cancel it, 
or go to Format | Cells... | Alignment | Text alignment | Horizontal. 
Numbers will be right-aligned and text left-aligned.


o Go to View | Value Highlighting. Numbers are shown in blue and text 
in black.


Choose carefully what your data should be. Convert any in the wrong 
form. There are many ways to do this; the TEXT() and VALUE() functions 
may help. Paste results back over your data. Now control the 
appearance of your data by formatting it (Format | Cells...). Ensure 
you have made appropriate choices at Tools | Options... | Language 
Settings | Languages - in particular "locale setting" and "Decimal 
separator key".


I trust this helps.

Brian Barker



As precise and informative as always. Thank you!
However, I will not have the time to reformat everything.
This is a "review" job (of a translation) with tens of thousands of 
cells for which I have only a few days.

Technical specifications of things I cannot see or deduct from the text.
Original client = Japanese company, but the order came from their German 
subsidiary, which apparently ordered the translation from an Italian agency.
Initially they seemed to try a translation into English and from there 
into German and the translator apparently did not know the difference 
between , / .
AND the work apparently needed to be done in one of those CAT tools, 
which did not work for me, so that I got "special permission" to work

with a CSV file derived from that CAT tool.

Maybe that will help you to image what the "data" look like ...

But that does not alter the fact, that your instructions are VERY helpful.
I will definitely make use of them in the future.

Delving again into that hell of letters and numbers ... probably until 2 am
Thomas


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[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice does not start any more

2015-12-30 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

I have LibreOffice installed on several Windows and 3 Linux machines.
On a Dell Vostro 3500, Win 7 Pro, freshly reinstalled 2-3 months ago,
On this particular machine I noticed a few days ago, that the software 
"Calibre" is

constantly crashing and I get an error message saying:
"No such module as propsys.dll".

Internet search shows, that this is a Microsoft system file.
TODAY I noticed, that LibreOffice is not starting at all (tried all 
sorts of things).


Is there any word about this kind of trouble?
* I do not know where to download that kind of system file (net says: DO 
NOT download it from unofficial sites).
* I would like to do a "system recovery", but noticed, that setting 
those recovery points is OFF by default.
And since I reinstalled the system recently, there are no points I 
can the system return to.


Does this leave reinstalling LibreOffice as the only option? Will it help?
(Reinstalling did not solve the problem with Calibre)

Thank you.
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] Anaphraseus extension

2016-01-07 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
I am trying to install the "Anaphraseus extension":
1)Windows 10 machine (new, high spec), LibreOffice = 4.4.3.2 / 
Anaphraseus 2.04.99b

Installation (after some trouble) achieved, but when trying to start:
Open Basic error in
"An exception occurred
Type: com.sun.star.container. NoSuchElementException
Message: Line 32"

2)Windows 7 machine; LibreOffice = 4.4.3.2 /
Anaphraseus 2.03.92b
Anaphraseus 2.04.99b
Anaphraseus 2.05.126

ALL attempts at installing these three versions result in:
"an error occurred during file opening"

Installation and startup worked on a Linux machine.
(Although there Anaphraseus tells me after translating just ONE segment, 
that there are no other segments to translate. Not very helpful.)


Is there a trick, some sort of magic to make this work?
Or should I conclude that it does not work?

Thank you in advance.
Thomas


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Re: [libreoffice-users] display

2016-02-15 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
On 2015/04/23 0:17, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> Good night = morning from Japan
> I believe I did ask the same question in the past related to an installation 
> on a Win XP machine:
> moving through documents (Writer) in LibreOffice while editing sometimes
> (constantly!) sort of blurrs/freezes the screen.
> That means, characters/lines/text sections "disappear", look like
> smeared ink or are displayed overlapping.
> The "problem" is solved, by switching to another Writer document and back.
>
> Computer: just bought a new one, no running Windows 10, Intel i7, 3.6 GHz 
> 8 GB RAM, 120 GB SSD = OS + 1 TB HDD
> and probably a whole lot of fancy high-tech stuff I am not capable of 
> understanding.
>
> So, I would LOVE to believe, that there cannot be any sort of
> "insufficient power".
>
> Thank you.
> Thomas
>
>
As said above, I did ask this last year in April and even before that.
Mr. Barker suggested minimizing the window.
Actually, that clears the view ... but only once and upon the next
operation the same thing happens again.
I have to "adjust" the view literally hundreds of times a day.

I am really wondering why this happens in the first place. It is
extremely annoying.
The SAME thing happens on at least 6 different computers I have tried: 3
Windows (XP, 7, 10) and 3 Linux (xubuntu, Mint) machines.
All have different hardware configurations.
AND ... on ALL machines this behavior appears ONLY with LibreOffice (I
use mostly Writer and Calc and so do not know about the other components)
Since this behavior affects only LibreOffice on multiple different
machines with different OSs ... I have difficulties recognizing it as a
hardware problem.
I tried to change all settings (including the memory settings) that
might be involved under Options.
So far nothing has helped.
Is there really no way to tell LibreOffice to behave like all other
applications (dozens!) on my computers?

Thank you
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] Screen tearing in LibreOffice

2016-02-21 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
I have been asking about this several times. (Most recently on 2/15 
under the title "display")
There are appearantly a number of technical terms to describe the 
phenomenons related to text display,

but I do not know which of those is the appropriate ONE.
"screen tearing" seems to refer to something a little different.

Anyway, I noticed a connection to the degree of magnification. Maybe 
somebody knows something here?
Since I have sufficiently large monitors - and because of age and poor 
eyesight -, I set the zoom level to something like 200%.

When I set it to "optimal" on a 24" monitor, I get something over 200%.
By accident I noticed, that the "screen tearing" DOES NOT (or at least 
not that annoyingly) occur at a zoom level of 140% or less.

THAT seems to be the limit. Even on my high-spec machine.

But I do not like to squint at my screen for 8 hours or more a day.

Question.
IS there a trick to avoid this phenomenon, where major text portions 
start to "run" into each other just like wet ink on paper and thus 
become unreadable?


A solution would be VERY highly appreciated.
Thank you.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Screen tearing in LibreOffice

2016-02-21 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2016/02/21 18:59, Pedro wrote:

Hi Thomas


Thomas Blasejewicz-3 wrote

A solution would be VERY highly appreciated.

Have you tried disabling OpenGL? In my systems the recently added OpenGL
does not bring any improvement even on a high spec machine (on the contrary)

Go to Tools > Options, on the left panel LibreOffice > View and on the right
panel uncheck "Use OpenGL for all rendering (on restart)"
Close and open LibreOffice to see if any improvements are noticeable. If
there were no changes try disabling "Use anti-aliasing" and/or "Use hardware
acceleration". Change one setting at a time and try all possible
combinations.

Hope this helps.
Pedro



Thank you.
I have tried to turn EACH of the items you mentioned ON/OFF before and 
just retried.

None of which has ANY effect.
Just to make sure, I restarted LibreOffice (not Windows) after every change.

I seem to be the only person complaining about this behavior. Does 
nobody encounter it?

I noticed it on SIX different computers.




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Screen tearing in LibreOffice Update = SOLVED

2016-02-21 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2016/02/21 19:25, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

On 2016/02/21 18:59, Pedro wrote:

Hi Thomas




Thank you.
I have tried to turn EACH of the items you mentioned ON/OFF before and 
just retried.

None of which has ANY effect.
Just to make sure, I restarted LibreOffice (not Windows) after every 
change.


I seem to be the only person complaining about this behavior. Does 
nobody encounter it?

I noticed it on SIX different computers.




I just tried
Turn OFF:
Tools -> Options -> Writer -> View -> Smooth scroll

Since I was dissatisfied with the "jumpiness" of scrolling in 
LibreOffice, I THOUGHT "smooth scroll" will improve things -

and forgot about that settings for years now.
If I turn that thing off, the "running ink" phenomenon seems to disappear.
The jumpiness of the scrolling remains (gets worse) though.

Sorry for the commotion.
Thomas


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[libreoffice-users] paste special

2016-02-28 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
Good evening
I just noticed something that I believe did not happen before.
Windows 10 high-spec desktop machine, LO 4.4.3.2
The same funktion works on a Windows 7 Dell Vostro 3500 notebook, some LO.

When I select text portions on any website and then try to copy that
text into a Writer document
as "paste special" (Ctrl+Shift+V) or my personal shortcut* for "past
text only",
NOTHING happens.
(* I used to use Ctrl+Alt+0)
When I hit Ctrl+V I get the text PLUS formatting etc., Something I DO
NOT want.

Copying the text portion into a text editor works just fine = copy
without formatting.

Do I miss something here.
Or did I "mess" something?

Thank you in advance for your help.
Thomas




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[libreoffice-users] date display in Calc Linux/Windows

2016-03-06 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
Good evening
I am using LibreOffice both on Windows and Linux (not that frequently)
machines.
Recent I noticed, that when I open a Calc file using dates (Japanese
format) on a Linux machine,
save that file via cloud services (here TeamDrive) and then open the
file on a Windows machine,
the dates are still there (as dates), but the font is all garbled up.
I tried all sort of settings, like specifying "date", tried several
different fonts etc.,
but so far nothing has helped.
I assume, there is a trick to do that?

Fonts: as far as I can see, there are no fonts with the same name in
Linux/Windows.
Does that then mean, I cannot work on the same file using both Linux and
Windows?

* I have not really started checking, but it seems, Japanese names
(characters) DO NOT get garbled up.

Thank you in advance
Thomas


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: date display in Calc Linux/Windows

2016-03-24 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2016/03/07 0:10, Pedro wrote:

Thomas Blasejewicz-3 wrote

I assume, there is a trick to do that?

Fonts: as far as I can see, there are no fonts with the same name in
Linux/Windows.
Does that then mean, I cannot work on the same file using both Linux and
Windows?

Open the file in the Windows machine, go to File > Properties, switch to the
Font tab and check the "Embed fonts in the document" box.
In theory the fonts are cross platform and should work on both OSes...
Please be warned that the file will increase substantially in size.
LibreOffice currently has a bug that causes some unneeded fonts to be
embedded
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65353

Hope this helps.

Good evening
I am afraid, I still have problems with this trick.
I have a "schedule" file on a Windows 10 machine.
On the left edge are dates. I specified the format for that column 
"number -> date -> (Japanese) date format".

However on opening the file today, everything was garbled up.
Resetting the format to date -> closing the file -> reopening it => 
again everything is messed up.
I tried this several time with different formats, removing the 
"language" argument from that column etc. ...
so far the ONLY thing that seems to help is setting the date to 
alphanumeric style.
That is basically OK, but I am wondering why all of a sudden I am not 
permitted to use something that has been working for years ...

Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: date display in Calc Linux/Windows

2016-03-24 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2016/03/24 20:08, Bruce Hohl wrote:

What format is used to save the file: ods, xlsx, xls?  Sometimes the
filters used to save in formats other than ods fail to retain all
formatting.


Good evening
Nativ ODS format, since I use this file ONLY with LibreOffice.

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[libreoffice-users] update

2016-04-02 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
Questions about updating LibreOffice.
In the past I read somewhere that there is an option of "automatic" 
(online) updating for Linux, but not for Windows.

In case of Windows I am "used" to download everything from scratch.

However, trying to set up a Linux machine (Mint 17.2) for work, I 
noticed, that the description of the

help documentation does NOT correspond to the actual situation:
https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Online_Update
Choose Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Online Update

On my LO 4.4 installation on the said Mint 17.2 machine there ***IS 
NO*** item called "online update".


Is there a trick to do that?

I also just downloaded the latest version 5.1, but that will not install 
either.

I am supposed to:
Right-click within the directory and choose "Open in Terminal" ... 
type:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb
but get the error:
"dpkg: error processing archive *.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory"

Any trick to solve this problem?
Thank you.
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] file format problem?

2016-04-06 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
Good evening
I am not sure whether this is a LibreOffice (?) problem or just MY problem.
It happened before, but I will describe the latest episode.

I was working with Writer on a Word (.docx) file. As a translation job I
was supposed to overwrite that file.
The file contained images, tables and objects.
After being 2/3 finished, I saved the file, went downstairs and wanted
to continue working while having a coffee.
However, when I opened the file, saved in SpiderOakOne, I noticed, that
the latter 2/3 of the file were gone.
Including 1/2 day of work.
Even archived earlier versions of the same file showed only the first 1/3.
Trying to open that file with MS Word, resulted in the following error:
"File Format error at
SAXParse Exception:
[word/document.xml line 2]:
Attribute w:hAnsi redefined
Stream word/document.xml line 2, column 73305 (row,col)"

The file contained originally about 4300 Japanese characters.
Even though there was nothing on my screen beyond the first 1/3 of that
file, its size did not change.
When I deleted the second 2/3 of the original file, the original size of
470 kb shrank to 130 kb.
After I retyped all the lost work and saved that first as .ODT and then
later as .docx, file size was 23 and 16 kb respectively.

A different translator translating the same file (probably using MS
Word) into a different language had apparently no problems.

What is happening here?
Does this mean Writer has problems handling MS Word files?
Is it the incomprehensible .docs format?
Do I HAVE to use Word for such file? Something I really do not want to do!
Is there anything to PREVENT this kind of event? (retyping my work all
the time will get me into real trouble!)

Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] file format problem?

2016-04-06 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2016/04/07 0:16, anne-ology wrote:


[yet another program?]

SpiderOak is not a program but a cloud storage service like Dropbox.
What I save on one computer will be synchronized (AND older versions 
archived) with my other computers.




[suggestion: open LO - then attempt to open saved document, allowing it
to translate if necessary;
hopefully, your file will re-appear.]


That did not help.
I opened the .docx file with LO in the first place, upon saving accepted 
the proposed (by LO) .docx format.




The file contained originally about 4300 Japanese characters.
Even though there was nothing on my screen beyond the first 1/3 of that
file, its size did not change.
When I deleted the second 2/3 of the original file, the original size of
470 kb shrank to 130 kb.
After I retyped all the lost work and saved that first as .ODT and then
later as .docx, file size was 23 and 16 kb respectively.

[these are MsFt not LO documents.]
After the trouble occured, I copied TEXT ONLY into Writer, finished work 
there AND THEN saved first as .odt and then as .docx (same file)


Necessity for Word format: translation agencies send me those Word file 
-> expect them to be "overwritten" ->
AND expect Word files back. Which will then be sold to the clients who 
ordered the translations. (translation not of file formats, but of text: 
manuals, books, letters etc.)
If I start mumbling "I use only odt format ...", they will probably stop 
sending me work. Then I will starve to death ...




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[libreoffice-users] How to NOT turn (c) into a symbol

2016-06-27 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
I have tried all sorts of settings to prevent LibreOffice from changing 
(c) into the copywright symbol.

So far nothing has helped.
Setting it as an exception does not work.
For reasons I do not understand the conversion is NOT made when I type 
(C) (=capital C).


What is the trick required to stop Libreoffice from doing this conversion.

If possible, I prefer NOT to turn of autocorrect entirely.

Thank you.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] How to NOT turn (c) into a symbol

2016-06-27 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2016/06/27 22:18, Piet van Oostrum wrote:

Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

  > Good evening
  > I have tried all sorts of settings to prevent LibreOffice from changing
  > (c) into the copywright symbol.
  > So far nothing has helped.
  > Setting it as an exception does not work.
  > For reasons I do not understand the conversion is NOT made when I type
  > (C) (=capital C).
  >
  > What is the trick required to stop Libreoffice from doing this conversion.
  >
  > If possible, I prefer NOT to turn of autocorrect entirely.
  >
  > Thank you.
  > Thomas

Well, you have Tools > Autocorrect > Autocorrect options
and there you delete that specific replacement. BUT: you have to do it for the 
language that your text is in. Apparently your text is not English (USA), 
because that has the (C) [Capital C] replaced by ©, not the lowercase (c). So 
check the language setting of your document (or that part of the document).

Thank you.
That is something  I have not thought of. However, it does not help either.
I am working on a document written in Japanese (-> a language that does 
NOT appear in the langauge field under autocorrect options),

that has to be overwritten by German. I am using a German keyboard layout.
The replacement occurs regardless of whether I type within the still 
Japanese section or the already translated German section.


German: neither deleting the entry present in the list of replacements 
nor adding (c) as new item changes anything.

Entering (c) for ALL languages does not any good either.
Does that leave "Ctrl+Z" the one and only option?

This "(c)" comes from a Japanese style of numbering (lots of) tables and 
items in a manner like "3.(4).A.(c)-1".
Don't ask me, whether that is good/right or whatever. It is just the way 
it is and therefore the way I am supposed to render it in the translation.

I would like to think, that therre should be more elegant way ...

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to NOT turn (c) into a symbol

2016-06-29 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2016/06/28 18:46, Alexander Thurgood wrote:

Le 27/06/2016 à 18:57, Thomas Blasejewicz a écrit :

Hi Thomas,


This "(c)" comes from a Japanese style of numbering (lots of) tables and
items in a manner like "3.(4).A.(c)-1".
Don't ask me, whether that is good/right or whatever. It is just the way
it is and therefore the way I am supposed to render it in the translation.
I would like to think, that therre should be more elegant way ...



If there is, I would be interested too, because it is a PITA. Having to
translate from English to French with this in styles not of my making
and render the same back to a client can quickly become an exercise in
frustration ! ;-)

Alex



Actually, I did not solve this problem yet.
The suggestion: there is  "Default - English (USA)" does not seem to 
apply to my setting.
In my case there is "Default - Japanese" (although I cannot remember 
having deliberately specified)

Otherwise there are only English (UK / USA)
Deleting the item for those languages /
setting an exception for Default - Japanese does not change anything.

Also, I do not really understand what the discussion about unicode 
characters has to do with the issue.

ALL I want to do is type "(c)" leave it standing as it is.
No automatic changes.
Now, this cannot be so difficult, can it?

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to NOT turn (c) into a symbol

2016-07-05 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2016/06/29 20:13, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

On 2016/06/28 18:46, Alexander Thurgood wrote:

Le 27/06/2016 à 18:57, Thomas Blasejewicz a écrit :

Hi Thomas,

This "(c)" comes from a Japanese style of numbering (lots of) tables 
and

items in a manner like "3.(4).A.(c)-1".
Don't ask me, whether that is good/right or whatever. It is just the 
way
it is and therefore the way I am supposed to render it in the 
translation.

I would like to think, that therre should be more elegant way ...



If there is, I would be interested too, because it is a PITA. Having to
translate from English to French with this in styles not of my making
and render the same back to a client can quickly become an exercise in
frustration ! ;-)

Alex

Posting back (better late then never) as requested about the things I tried:
LibreOffice 5.1.2.2
Windows 10
Options -> Language -> User IF = English
*Default language -> Western = English (USA)
-> Asian = Default Japanese
-> English (default) is NOT in my list

Tools -> Autocorrect options -> "Replace" by language:
All -> no entries
English -> (C) -> deleted -> no change
Default - Japanese -> deleted -> no change
German/Germany -> deleted -> no change
German/Austria -> no fitting entry*
German/Belgium -> no fitting entry
German/Lichtenstein -> no fitting entry
German/Luxembourg -> no fitting entry
German/Switzerland -> no fitting entry

*"no fitting entry" means: there IS the item ".*(c)", but that is 
NOT what I am typing.


So, deleting ALL instances of "(c)" I could find in all languages I use 
(English, Japanese, German)

still does not change anything.
When I type "(c)" in a document with German as language setting, I 
invariably get the copyright mark.


Do I have to delete the "related" items in all the other German variants 
- which I NEVER use - too to make this work?
If this setting cannot be changed at all .. no offense, but that would 
be really stupid.

Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to NOT turn (c) into a symbol

2016-07-07 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2016/07/06 15:45, Piet van Oostrum wrote:

Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

  > Tools -> Autocorrect options -> "Replace" by language:
  > All -> no entries
  > English -> (C) -> deleted -> no change
  > Default - Japanese -> deleted -> no change
  > German/Germany -> deleted -> no change
  > German/Austria -> no fitting entry*
  > German/Belgium -> no fitting entry
  > German/Lichtenstein -> no fitting entry
  > German/Luxembourg -> no fitting entry
  > German/Switzerland -> no fitting entry
  >
  > *"no fitting entry" means: there IS the item ".*(c)", but that is
  > NOT what I am typing.

.*(c) looks like a regular expression. I don't know exactly what the 
interpretation of it is when doing autocorrection but I would suspect that 
these should also be deleted.

Well, I deleted the .*(c) from ALL German variants too.
Now, there is NOWHERE  in the languages I use (English, Japanese, 
German) any such entry as (c),

but LO is still throwing the copyright mark at me.

This cannot be right.
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] style panel on the right "crashes"

2016-08-04 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
I just discovered something. Since I never did this before, I do not 
know, whether the problem is old or new.


1) Open document. existing or empty - it does not matter
2) click F11 to open the style/navigator etc. panel on the right
3) I pointed the cursor on the double line separating the panel from the 
text area and tried to drag it a little to the left
4) with the cursor on said double line, the cursor assumes the shape of 
a double line with arrows pointing in opposite directions
5) this operation then starts very fast and wild flickering mainly of 
the panel, but also the text area
and the cursor remains forever in the shape of a double line with 
arrows pointing in opposite directions


The ONLY way of stopping this is Ctrl+Alt+Del -> Task manager -> force 
quite Libreoffice.


THAT cannot be normal.
Is there a way to avoid this behavior. It is obviously VERY disruptive!

Thank you
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] style panel on the right "crashes"

2016-08-04 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
I just discovered something. Since I never did this before, I do not 
know, whether the problem is old or new.


1) Open document. existing or empty - it does not matter
2) click F11 to open the style/navigator etc. panel on the right
3) I pointed the cursor on the double line separating the panel from the 
text area and tried to drag it a little to the left
4) with the cursor on said double line, the cursor assumes the shape of 
a double line with arrows pointing in opposite directions
5) this operation then starts very fast and wild flickering mainly of 
the panel, but also the text area
and the cursor remains forever in the shape of a double line with 
arrows pointing in opposite directions


The ONLY way of stopping this is Ctrl+Alt+Del -> Task manager -> force 
quite Libreoffice.


THAT cannot be normal.
Is there a way to avoid this behavior. It is obviously VERY disruptive!

Thank you
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] style per sheet for different types of numbers

2017-04-30 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good morning
I am using LibreOffice 5.2.2.2 on Windows 10 / 7 / Linux Mint
I do have a file with about 20 sheets, containing patient data - using 
both English and Japanese.
Naturally there are ordinary numbers like age (50 etc.), but there are 
also dates like first visit etc.

I would like to apply the same style to every sheet.
Meaning:
Japanese font = xxx / size = xxx
English font = xxx / size = xxx
I think I managed to set that up in my cell style "clinic".
However, numbers I can set ONLY to "Date", in which case "50" suddenly 
turns into some incomprehensible figure,
or to "Numbers", in which case then the date is converted into a number 
that does not make any sense to me (although by now I know, there is a 
rationale behind that number).


Is there a way to set up a cell style (page styles do not have any 
settings for numbers, fonts etc.) that can handle BOTH standard numbers 
and dates?

Or do I have to format every single column in every single sheet by hand?

Thank you for your help.
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] keep cell format in Calc

2017-06-05 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good morning
I have to work (translation) on an Excel file with two columns> Japanese 
and an empty column where German has to be placed.
"Naturally" (translation agencies just don't get it), everything is 
formated for Japanese.


To make my work easier, I format the "German" column to have a different 
font + language AND word wrapping.


I do my work and save the file to "SpiderOak" (something like Dropbox).
HOWEVER, when I go home (or the next day back to the office) to use a 
different computer, all that formatting is gone.


I do not believe, this has happened to any other file I have used in the 
past.


Is there somewhere a setting, that tells the computer NOT to remember my 
formatting?

It is not a major problem ... but bothersome.

Thank you
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] word count in impress

2017-10-02 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
It happens once in a while .. I have to work (translate) PPT files for 
which I use Impress and then need to know the number of words.

In the entire file.
So far I could not figure out, whether there is a way to count all words 
in an Impress file.
(A similar question posted on the net somewhere was "closed, because it 
is irrelevant" ???)


Today I found, that one can get a word count in the real PPT by looking 
at properties.


Is there such a trick for Impress?

Thank you.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] word count in impress

2017-10-02 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2017/10/03 4:03, Krunose wrote:

On 02.10.2017 18:13, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

Good evening
It happens once in a while .. I have to work (translate) PPT files  
for which I use Impress and then need to know the number of words.

In the entire file.
So far I could not figure out, whether there is a way to count all  
words in an Impress file.
(A similar question posted on the net somewhere was "closed, because  
it is irrelevant" ???)


Today I found, that one can get a word count in the real PPT by  
looking at properties.


Is there such a trick for Impress?

Thank you.
Thomas



I don't know about better solution but you could save presentation as  
html (as one file) and then open that file in Writer.


Could this work for you?

Kruno

Under "save as" I cannot find anything resembling "html", so the file  
has to be "exported" as xhtml.

But THAT give you all that computer language, which will NOT! be paid.
So the count for a test file I opened should be somewhere around 30  
pages (translation), but the word/character count

in Writer gives a count like 350 pages.
If the companies would pay me that much, that would be wonderfull,  
however that is unfortunately not how the world works ...


When I export it as html, I get a count of 52 words. That is obviously  
not correct either.


Apparently, this does not work.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] word count in impress

2017-10-03 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2017/10/04 2:38, Toki wrote:

On 10/02/2017 04:13 PM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:


(A similar question posted on the net somewhere was "closed, because it is 
irrelevant" ???)

I'll hazard an explanation, without looking at the specific question so
closed.

b) For presentations, regardless of how "word" is defined, words are not
fundamental to the final product. What matters is the aesthetics of each
frame, and the number of frames within the presentation. As such, words
are irrelevant;

Well, I do not want to be rude, but words (= their number) ***ARE***  
fundamental to the (my) final product.
As I said, I am given PPT files (I hate to work with those!!!) to  
TRANSLATE the content.
The _*number of words*_ (or the number of original (Japanese)  
characters) defines how much money I get.
I do not care about the "looks" of the file (or academic definitions of  
"word").


(from the Libreoffice Help page:
How does LibreOffice count words?
In general, every string of characters between two spaces is a word.  
Dashes, tabs, line breaks, and paragraph breaks are word limits, too.)


All I need to know is the number of words - counted in a way that is  
reproducible, since the translation agency will have its own opinion  
about that.

Thank you
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] system sound + Libreoffice

2017-10-06 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
I noted a very strange behavior.
Although I have set Windows (10) system sounds to "no sound",
in more or less frequent intervals the systems starts beeping (e.g., 
when switching to Caps Lock).


This happens ***ONLY*** when I am using Libreoffice.
It used to go away, when I reset the "no sound".
By now, this does not work any longer. The computer annoyingly keeps 
"beeping me crazy".


Is there a trick to stop that behavior???

Thank you
Thomas


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Re: [libreoffice-users] system sound + Libreoffice [SOLVED]

2017-10-06 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2017/10/06 23:00, Tim-L wrote:


Last time I heard of this type of problem was in the early Windows 
days [i.e. Windows 95 era?].  ASCII has a non-printable character that 
actually causes the beep noise with the motherboard hardware.


On 10/6/2017 5:11 AM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

Good evening
I noted a very strange behavior.
Although I have set Windows (10) system sounds to "no sound",
in more or less frequent intervals the systems starts beeping (e.g., 
when switching to Caps Lock).


This happens ***ONLY*** when I am using Libreoffice.
It used to go away, when I reset the "no sound".
By now, this does not work any longer. The computer annoyingly keeps 
"beeping me crazy".


Is there a trick to stop that behavior???

Thank you
Thomas









Hopefully I have "solved" the problem
https://www.howtogeek.com/252226/how-to-make-windows-play-a-sound-when-you-press-caps-lock-num-lock-or-scroll-lock/

Since the computer did not act so before, I have no idea how this came 
to pass, but there is a KEYBOARD setting

designed to make sounds when toggling keys.
I turned that OFF ... and now the computer finally keeps quiet - VERY 
helpful when working at 2 am (now!)


Thank you
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] How to write vertical text in Draw (text boxes)

2017-12-28 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
I need to write vertical text (Japanese) in text boxes but cannot find 
out to manage that.

(I have been working on that almost a whole day already).

Inserting a text box and writing something give a horizontal text.
Rotation then turns the whole thing for example 90 degrees, but that 
does not

give any "vertical writing" as it is supposed to look in Japanese.

I would very much appreciate any hints.
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] Runtime error with extensions

2018-03-23 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good morning
I use LibreOffice (5.2.2.2) on Windows (7 / 10) and Linux machines.
Rarely I try to use extensions. Recently in particular:
* Alternative Searching
* Anaphraseus
(have not really tried any other extensions)

However, EVERY time I am trying to start those extensions on the Windows 
machines (NOT the linux machine: Linux Mint 17.3 / LibreOffice 4.4.3.2), 
I get the following error:

Basic runtime error.
An exception occurred
Type:
com.sun.star.container.NoSuchElementException
Message: .
OK

When I go into "Extensions" and disable the respective extension once 
and then (immediately after) enable it again,

they work.
But the next time I start LibreOffice it is again the same thing.

Is there a way to fix this?
Googling did not bring up any solutions so far.

Thank you
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] bouncing messages?

2018-03-27 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
An automated messages tell me, that there are a number of "bouncing 
messages",

but all I get is a number :

Here is the list of the bounced messages:
- 53454

How am I supposed to view those messages?
Thank you
Thomas


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Runtime error with extensions

2018-03-28 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

May I ask the same thing again?
There seem to have been no replies.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

On 2018/03/24 10:45, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

Good morning
I use LibreOffice (5.2.2.2) on Windows (7 / 10) and Linux machines.
Rarely I try to use extensions. Recently in particular:
* Alternative Searching
* Anaphraseus
(have not really tried any other extensions)

However, EVERY time I am trying to start those extensions on the  
Windows machines (NOT the linux machine: Linux Mint 17.3 / LibreOffice  
4.4.3.2), I get the following error:

Basic runtime error.
An exception occurred
Type:
com.sun.star.container.NoSuchElementException
Message: .
OK

When I go into "Extensions" and disable the respective extension once  
and then (immediately after) enable it again,

they work.
But the next time I start LibreOffice it is again the same thing.

Is there a way to fix this?
Googling did not bring up any solutions so far.

Thank you
Thomas




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[libreoffice-users] copy function not working

2018-05-10 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
I am using Ver. 5.2.6.2 (and some other minor variations) on a Windows 
10 machine and having trouble with "copying text".

I think, this problem has not yet appeared on other machines.

Problem:
Select a text portion in one application -> move to Writer -> Ctrl+V 
(paste).

(copy "text only" does NOT help)

However, what shows up is a text portion selected earlier and NOT the 
one selected just now.
When I do the Ctrl+V (paste) trick in a text editor, the text portion in 
question shows up just fine.


This happens SOMETIMES but not always. (it is nevertheless very annoying).
Currently I have to close Writer and reopen it to "solve" this problem.

Is there something a little smarter that can be done?
Thank you.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] copy function not working

2018-05-11 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/05/11 16:49, Steve Edmonds wrote:

Hi.
Are you using Ctl-c to copy.
Do you have a clipboard other than the standard windows one  
(equivalent to Klipper in KDE or Clypan on Mac).

Steve

On 10/05/18 23:04, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

Good evening
I am using Ver. 5.2.6.2 (and some other minor variations) on a  
Windows 10 machine and having trouble with "copying text".

I think, this problem has not yet appeared on other machines.

Problem:
Select a text portion in one application -> move to Writer -> Ctrl+V  
(paste).

(copy "text only" does NOT help)

However, what shows up is a text portion selected earlier and NOT the  
one selected just now.
When I do the Ctrl+V (paste) trick in a text editor, the text portion  
in question shows up just fine.


This happens SOMETIMES but not always. (it is nevertheless very  
annoying).

Currently I have to close Writer and reopen it to "solve" this problem.

Is there something a little smarter that can be done?
Thank you.
Thomas





Yes, MOSTLY I use Ctrl+C -> Ctrl+V.
Since that did not work, I also tried the mouse.
I DO NOT have any of the clipboard things you mentioned.
(I hope find enough time tonight to install a new version ... maybe  
things will improve)


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[libreoffice-users] Writer interface font size

2018-05-11 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good morning
Just installed LibreOffice 6.0.4 (on the computer where I had problems 
with copying).


Because I am getting older and my vision deteriorates,
the fist thing I always do with new/upgraded software is to increase 
interface font size.


I know how to increase the size of the icons in the menu bars,
but unfortunately I could not yet figure out how to increase the 
interface font size.

There seems to be no such item under "Options"

Could somebody please direct me to the relevant setting (in the hope, 
there IS such setting).

Thank you
Thomas


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer interface font size

2018-05-12 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/05/12 19:00, Luuk wrote:

On 12-5-2018 04:55, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

I know how to increase the size of the icons in the menu bars,
but unfortunately I could not yet figure out how to increase the
interface font size.
There seems to be no such item under "Options"

Could somebody please direct me to the relevant setting (in the hope,
there IS such setting).
Thank you
Thomas



In Windows 10 you can increase the size of the fonts for all
applications using:
- rightcLick the windows logo, and choos System
- choose Display
- under 'Change the size of text, apps, and other items', choose a
higher percentage (i.e. 125%)



Thank you, but that is not what I am looking for.
Most of my applications are individually set to the (interface) font 
size that I like best.

I was hoping that LibreOffice let's me choose among some options ...

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer interface font size

2018-05-12 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/05/13 0:36, Jorge Rodríguez wrote:

Hi Thomas:

  You can do it follow this steps:

   Menu-Tools-Options-LibreOffice Writer-Basic Fons ( Western )

   There you can select the type and the size default font



Thank you.
Yes, I know that I can do that.
However .. that applies to the font of the text your are writing and NOT 
the interface.


Monitor size: I already use a 24-inch monitor at home.

Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] copy function not working

2018-05-14 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/05/12 2:11, Brian Barker wrote:

At 20:04 10/05/2018 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:


Problem: Select a text portion in one application -> move to Writer 
-> Ctrl+V (paste).



Sorry, most likely my explanation was not good enough.
So, I will try it again. My home computer is now on 6.0.4 - which did 
NOT improve things.
(if anything, the apparent lack of scaling capability for the interface 
font makes work only harder)


Use any piece of text: let's use A = help / B = rescue
* Suppose now I have a text editor open and select "A" on the editor 
screen and press Ctrl+C (or use the mouse to achieve the same thing)

* switch to Writer
* press Ctrl+V (or use the mouse to achieve the same thing)
* I get "A"
So far so good.
* Next I select a different word, like B and perform the same procedure.
* Having done this a trillion times on "countless" computers using 
equally "countless" different applications ->

* I DO expect to get "B" in Writer.
* However, Writer insists on copying "A". It does not matter how many 
times I repeat the procedure.
* This morning it even continued to insist in copying "A" instead of "B" 
AFTER I shut Writer down and reopened it.
* When I use the "Ctrl+C" + "Ctrl+V" routine to copy either "A" or "B" 
into software OTHER than Libreoffice, it works as expected.


I am definitely NOT a computer expert, but I believe I can perform a 
"copy and paste" action.

In particular when I do this deliberately and with great care.
One might argue, that "A" is still on the (Windows) clipboard.
But if that were true, copying it to other applications should also give 
me an "A", but I actually get the requested "B".


For that reason I cannot help but assume, that there is something 
strange going on in Writer.
While working in Writer I use Calc in parallel to create a list of term 
and their translations.
Copying either A or B from other applications into Cals DOES NOT give me 
this grief. (at least not yet)
This is a recent event and I don't thing I have had this problem with 
the computer in my little clinic.
Even though this may not be any sort of "fatal error", it is nonetheless 
very annoying during work.


Is this explanation a little better?
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] type backslash in "Find" dialog

2018-05-16 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
Sorry, but I have another stupid question.
I am using a Japanese computer with a Japanese keyboard that I have set 
to switch between English (German) and Japanese input.

Activating the US English keyboard does not help.

When I want to use regular expressions in Writer I am supposed to enter 
a backslash.
While writing in Writer I get that backslash, but in the Find dialog I 
always get the "Yen" mark no matter what I do.
Naturally, find dialog always tells me, there is no such thing as for 
example "backslash+p", since the find field

contains on "yen+p".

Is there a trick to tell the Find dialog that I am talking about 
"backslash" and NOT "Yen"?
So far all my attempts have failed. (meaning I am unable to use regular 
expressions associated with a backslash).


Thank you
Thomas


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Re: [libreoffice-users] type backslash in "Find" dialog

2018-05-16 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/05/16 20:09, Regina Henschel wrote:

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Blasejewicz schrieb am 16.05.2018 um 11:51:

Good evening
Sorry, but I have another stupid question.
I am using a Japanese computer with a Japanese keyboard that I have set
to switch between English (German) and Japanese input.
Activating the US English keyboard does not help.

When I want to use regular expressions in Writer I am supposed to enter
a backslash.
While writing in Writer I get that backslash, but in the Find dialog I
always get the "Yen" mark no matter what I do.
Naturally, find dialog always tells me, there is no such thing as for
example "backslash+p", since the find field
contains on "yen+p".


The context menu of the input field in the find&replace dialog has an 
item "Special Characters" (or Ctrl+Shift+S). Do you have tried that?


Kind regards
Regina

I tried that. In there it is called "reverse solidus" -> Yen / backslash 
are identical and ONLY the Yen mark ever appears in the Find dialog.

So, this does not help.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] type backslash in "Find" dialog

2018-05-16 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/05/16 22:25, Regina Henschel wrote:

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Blasejewicz schrieb am 16.05.2018 um 13:32:

On 2018/05/16 20:09, Regina Henschel wrote:



I tried that. In there it is called "reverse solidus" -> Yen / backslash
are identical and ONLY the Yen mark ever appears in the Find dialog.
So, this does not help.



Then the question is more, why the backslash it converted at all. I 
think, that it is not a problem in LibreOffice, but one of the 
operating system. In case of Windows 10 you might try the "Advanced 
Settings for Microsoft IME". In its part "AutoCorrect" you will find a 
replacement of \ to ¥. Perhaps if you set it to "No conversion" the 
problem goes away.


I cannot test it.

Kind regards
Regina




Good evening.
Yes, I tried that too, but it does not work.
Googling the topic I found an article "Entering a backslash when using 
UK keyboard layout on US keyboard" saying that you can get a backslash

by typing 92.
That gives me again a Yen mark.
Installing a US keyboard layout (again) does not help either.

I guess, I have to think of some other solution.
Sorry for having you all bothered with this.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: type backslash in "Find" dialog

2018-05-17 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/05/17 5:36, toki wrote:

Thomas wrote:


While writing in Writer I get that backslash, but in the Find dialog I

always get the "Yen" mark no matter what I do.
Naturally, find dialog always tells me, there is no such thing as for
example "backslash+p", since the find field
contains on "yen+p".

What codepage is the computer configured for?

Sorry, but I don't how I am supposed to look for that information.
I usually use English, German and Japanese and don't have any problems 
entering things - except the backslash in the find dialog.
In most cases where a backslash was required in the past, the "Yen" mark 
appearing on the screen worked just fine.




My guess is that LibO is using that codepage for the UI, and UTF-8 in
Write.

jonathon




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: type backslash in "Find" dialog

2018-05-19 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/05/18 1:01, Roy Reese wrote:

Enviar: jueves 17 de mayo de 2018 a las 11:54
De: "Thomas Blasejewicz" 

My guess is that LibO is using that codepage for the UI, and UTF-8 in
Write.

jonathon

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For coding in LO, click on Help  About and you will see it.


It says there:
"UI render: default
Locale: ja_JP (ja_JP); Calc: group"

Does that mean, I need to change the locale setting of the computer? 
Living in Japan and working with a computer running the

Japanese Version of Windows that might not be such a good idea.
I do use an (USA) English UI and changing the locale within Libreoffice 
(Tools -> Options -> Language settings) to US English apparently has no 
effect.

Anything else I might try?
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] Set JRE in LibreOffice

2018-05-22 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good morning
I recently upgraded to 6.0.4.

In recent versions a java runtime environment was set up automatically 
or I did that manually.

For example on a Windows 7 notebook
-> tools - options - libreoffice - advanced -> Java options
location: C:\Program Files\Java\jre xxx

However in 6.0.4 the Java options box is empty and when I try to add the 
jre:

location (Windows 10): C:\Program Files(x86)\Java\jre xxx

I get the error message:
"The folder you selected does not contain a Java runtime environment. 
Please select a different folder."


Actually there are TWO jre versions, both cause the same error message.
The Java version on the computer is the newest one available.

Is there a trick to it, or does 6.0.4 does not use JRE any more?
Thank you.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Set JRE in LibreOffice

2018-05-23 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/05/23 15:13, Robert Großkopf wrote:

Hi Thomas,

which version of LO do you use? 64bit or 32bit? You need Java 32bit for
LO 32bit and Java 64bit for LO 64bit.

Regards

Robert
I am currently talking about a 64-bit Windows 10 machine where also LO 
is 64-bit.
However, over the last 10+ years I NEVER needed to specify that during 
setup.

Nor during the installation of Java.
The Java website allows you download the newest version, but does NOT 
ask about 32/64-bit installation.

(I presume it detects that automatically)
Am I missing something important here?
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] copy function not working

2018-06-06 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/06/03 17:09, Brian Barker wrote:

At 20:50 29/05/2018 +, Virgil Arrington wrote:
I am starting to experience more copy/paste issues similar to those 
described by Thomas. I am using LO 6.0.3.2 with Linux Mint 18.


Today, I was working in Impress. I've been copying and pasting text 
from one slide to another within a single Impress presentation file. 
Every now and then, the copy function  does not copy the new 
text, so that when I press , instead of getting the text I 
just copied, I get a previous copy. It also happened when I tried 
copying text from another program (LyX) into my LO Impress.


I have to say that the simplest explanation of this for both of you - 
and consequently the one recommended by Occam - is still that your 
copy operation - using Ctrl+C - failed to happen. Keyboards do fail or 
become unreliable, so this would hardly be surprising. Pardon my 
asking this, but when did you last remove dust, cat hair, biscuit 
crumbs, paper clips, and so on from your keyboard? Gravity is 
effective at adding these items. Do you use the "C" key often? Are you 
perhaps a member of the Caius College Cambridge Cricket Club?


Here's a suggestion. When you use Ctrl+C you see no feedback of the 
process. In other words, the behaviour is exactly the same whether the 
operation has succeeded or failed, so you cannot tell. This is 
different from using Edit | Copy, where the Edit menu disappears when 
the click is successful, but not otherwise. Similarly, using 
right-click | Copy, the context menu disappears only when your click 
is successful. Just test by using either of these techniques instead. 
If you can reproduce the problem with the *Copy* operation performed 
in either of these ways, there may be some underlying software 
problem; if not, your Ctrl+C is simply not working.


I must say this is an entirely new behavior for me and my copy of LO. 
It not only happened when copying and pasting from another program to 
LO, but also from one slide to another within LO itself. I'll keep an 
eye on it and try to see any consistency in the behavior. So far, it 
has been intermittent.


Again, this is all consistent with a hardware problem.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker



Good evening
I do not want to be awkward, but this behavior seems to affect ONLY 
Libreoffice.

(it did not bother me for 1-2 weeks now)

Trying to copy one word selected in a text editor works just fine in ALL 
softwares I tried EXCEPT Writer - which insists on inserting some 
earlier selection (when it is in the mood to).

How can this be a hardware problem?

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[libreoffice-users] install built-in help

2018-06-24 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
(Windows 10, LibreOffice 6.0.4.2, Japanese OS, selected interface 
language: US English)

When I press F1, I get the error message:
"LibreOffice built-in help is not installed on your computer."

I downloaded both the English AND the Japanese versions of the built-in 
help file and stalled both.

Regardless of the interface language I choose, I still get the above error.

Is there a trick to achieve this.
Googling showed answers like selecting the appropriate IF language, but 
that apparently does NOT work.


Thank you
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Cut/Copy problems in LO

2018-07-04 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/07/05 5:23, Virgil Arrington wrote:

Okay, I've had the cut/copy/paste issue pop up again in LO. It just
happened today. By way of reminder, my configuration is as follows:

Sony Vaio laptop
Linux Mint 18
LO 6.0.3.2

Today, I was working on an LO Impress presentation. I was also running
LyX, Geany (text editor), Xiphos (Bible software) and Nemo (file
explorer). I wanted to move some text on one of my LO Impress slides.
All I was trying to do was move the text to another location on the
slide itself. I selected the text and pressed Ctrl-X to cut it. It
didn't cut. I then clicked on the Edit menu and both "Cut" and "Copy"
were greyed out as if I hadn't even selected any text. I tried some
other functions, such as applying boldface to the selected text, and it
worked, so LO recognized that I had, indeed selected text. It just
wouldn't let me cut or copy it to the clipboard. Both Ctrl-C and Ctrl-X
did nothing and the mouse options on the menu weren't available.

I then went into both LyX and Geany to see if, perhaps my issue was OS
related. Both LyX and Geany allowed me to cut, copy and paste. I could
cut and copy within LyX and Geany and across the two programs. I could
also paste text into LO from LyX or Geany without problem.

So, the problem seems to be that, for whatever reason, from time to
time, LO stops allowing a user to cut or copy text to the clipboard (or
whatever Linux calls it). When this happened today, as in the past, I
was able to solve the problem by closing out the Impress presentation
(without closing down LO completely) and reopening the file. Once
reopened, I was able to cut and paste within LO again.

Curiouser and curiouser.

Virgil


I (the original poster) have been quiet about this, but actually, the 
problem is getter worse with time and by now

makes working (translation) uncomfortable process!
The problem occurs ONLY with Libreoffice, but not with any other 
software as far as I can tell, using at least three
different versions: older version 4..somenthing, intermediate verions 
5.2.. and the newest 6.0.5.2.
Once the problem pops up, I have to try all sort of things like 
deliberately saving all open files, repeating the copy+paste procedure
several times among different softwares, or, as Mr. Virgil said, close 
down LibreOffice. Usually Write alone WILL NOT be sufficient.
AND .. it does not make any difference whether I use keyboard commands 
or the mouse.


So, whatever this is ... it has developed into a real pay in the neck.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: type backslash in "Find" dialog

2018-07-04 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/05/19 19:22, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

On 2018/05/18 1:01, Roy Reese wrote:

Enviar: jueves 17 de mayo de 2018 a las 11:54
De: "Thomas Blasejewicz" 

My guess is that LibO is using that codepage for the UI, and UTF-8 in
Write.

jonathon

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For coding in LO, click on Help  About and you will see it.


It says there:
"UI render: default
Locale: ja_JP (ja_JP); Calc: group"

Does that mean, I need to change the locale setting of the computer? 
Living in Japan and working with a computer running the

Japanese Version of Windows that might not be such a good idea.
I do use an (USA) English UI and changing the locale within 
Libreoffice (Tools -> Options -> Language settings) to US English 
apparently has no effect.

Anything else I might try?
Thomas


This is another problem that has NOT been solved.
BUT ... I noticed that in MS Word (I DO NOT like MS products and thus 
try to avoid them whenever possible), I can select a backslash
in the text, copy it to the search field -> where it is displayed as the 
YEN sign -> AND perform search and replace.

That works.
The very same thing also works in "Textmaker" (Softmaker product).
It DOES NOT work in a text editor.

Since other softwares are actually able to do this little trick, it 
would be wonderful if someone could work this bit of computer magic.

Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Cut/Copy problems in LO

2018-08-08 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/07/05 9:40, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

On 2018/07/05 5:23, Virgil Arrington wrote:

Okay, I've had the cut/copy/paste issue pop up again in LO. It just
happened today. By way of reminder, my configuration is as follows:

Sony Vaio laptop
Linux Mint 18
LO 6.0.3.2

The problem occurs ONLY with Libreoffice, but not with any other 
software as far as I can tell, using at least three
different versions: older version 4..somenthing, intermediate verions 
5.2.. and the newest 6.0.5.2.
Once the problem pops up, I have to try all sort of things like 
deliberately saving all open files, repeating the copy+paste procedure
several times among different softwares, or, as Mr. Virgil said, close 
down LibreOffice. Usually Write alone WILL NOT be sufficient.
AND .. it does not make any difference whether I use keyboard commands 
or the mouse.

By now, the situation has developed into a nightmare!
There is nothing wrong with my operation -> it works just fine with 
other software.

The problem starts mostly when I use memoQ (a CAT tool):
Copy a section in memoQ -> move to Writer -> paste that section.
It may work ONCE - but then never again.
The exact same procedure, except for copying into a text editor or even 
MS-Word does NOT cause any problems.


What is this with LibreOffice?
Is there really nothing that can be done?
(I do NOT want to use Word and by now I have mostly forgotten how to use 
it anyway. That would make work very uncomfortable.)


Thank you.
Thomas



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Cut/Copy problems in LO

2018-08-08 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/08/09 12:36, Steve Edmonds wrote:



On 09/08/18 15:01, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

On 2018/07/05 9:40, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

On 2018/07/05 5:23, Virgil Arrington wrote:

Okay, I've had the cut/copy/paste issue pop up again in LO. It just
happened today. By way of reminder, my configuration is as follows:

Sony Vaio laptop
Linux Mint 18
LO 6.0.3.2

The problem occurs ONLY with Libreoffice, but not with any other 
software as far as I can tell, using at least three
different versions: older version 4..somenthing, intermediate 
verions 5.2.. and the newest 6.0.5.2.
Once the problem pops up, I have to try all sort of things like 
deliberately saving all open files, repeating the copy+paste procedure
several times among different softwares, or, as Mr. Virgil said, 
close down LibreOffice. Usually Write alone WILL NOT be sufficient.
AND .. it does not make any difference whether I use keyboard 
commands or the mouse.

By now, the situation has developed into a nightmare!
There is nothing wrong with my operation -> it works just fine with 
other software.

The problem starts mostly when I use memoQ (a CAT tool):
Copy a section in memoQ -> move to Writer -> paste that section.
It may work ONCE - but then never again.
The exact same procedure, except for copying into a text editor or 
even MS-Word does NOT cause any problems.


What is this with LibreOffice?
Is there really nothing that can be done?
(I do NOT want to use Word and by now I have mostly forgotten how to 
use it anyway. That would make work very uncomfortable.)


Thank you.
Thomas

Grabbing at straws here, does it make any difference if, when you 
paste into Writer, you paste special>unformatted text.

steve


No, unfortunately it does not.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Cut/Copy problems in LO

2018-08-08 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/08/09 14:42, Alex Kempshall wrote:

Have you tried

Copy a section in memoQ -> start notepad -> paste that section into 
notepad -> Copy that section from notepad -> move to Writer -> paste 
that section into writer


Alex

That does NOT help. The result is (almost) always the same.
I tried similar tricks a million times already.

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[libreoffice-users] insert special characters

2018-08-21 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good morning
At home I am using LibreOffice 6.0.5.2 (Windows 10)
In my office I use a little older version (not sure about that version 
number).


In the office I do: Alt+P -> open special character dialog -> select a 
character -> Enter
When I repeat this operation a little later and want to use the SAME 
character,

it used to be selected already and all I had to do was press Enter.

At home this does not work any more.
I have to repeat to entire procedure: Alt+P -> open special character 
dialog -> select a character -> Enter.

Is this an "improvement" (of obscure meaning) I have to live with,
or is there a trick that would give me the functionality I am enjoying 
in my office?


Thank you.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] insert special characters

2018-08-22 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/08/22 17:30, Brian Barker wrote:

At 11:31 22/08/2018 +0900, you wrote:
In the office I do: Alt+P -> open special character dialog -> select 
a character -> Enter


Is that Alt+I, P?

It is Alt+P.
Since I do not recall having set this shortcut key, I believe it is the 
default setting.



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[libreoffice-users] edit autocorrection options

2018-12-23 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good afternoon
I am frequently working on patent specifications, in which there 
references to all those numbers and symbols

in the accompanying figures.
This also often includes something like "(c)".

LibreOffice insists on converting this into the copyright symbol.
I tried Tools -> Autocorrect Options -> Exceptions (words with two 
capitals) and added this (c).

However Writer apparently does not recognize / remember this setting.

The help section says, typing Crtl+z immediately after the (c) input 
reverts the autocorrection

and adds it to the list of exception.
Yet, Writer does NOT remember this.

Is there a way to make this exception "permanent" (until a time when I 
choose to change the setting)?


Thank you.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] edit autocorrection options

2018-12-23 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/12/24 13:21, Brian Barker wrote:
At 12:26 24/12/2018 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: 


The help section says, typing Crtl+z immediately after the (c) input 
reverts the autocorrection and adds it to the list of exception.


The first part - that Edit | Undo or Ctrl+Z undoes the automatic 
correction - is right, but I'm very surprised to hear any suggestion 
of adding something to the list of exceptions.



 Adding Exceptions to the AutoCorrect List

You can prevent AutoCorrect from correcting specific abbreviations or 
words that have mixed capital letters and lowercase letters.


1.

   Choose *Tools - AutoCorrect - AutoCorrect Options*, and then click
   the *Exceptions* tab.

2.

   Do one of the following:

   Type the abbreviation followed by a period in the *Abbreviations (no
   subsequent capital) *box and click *New*.

   Type the word in the *Words with TWo INitial CApitals *box and click
   *New*.

Tip Icon



To quickly undo an AutoCorrect replacement, press Ctrl+Z. *This also 
adds the word or abbreviation that you typed to the AutoCorrect 
exceptions list.*


Here is the copy from the Help section. It says there, the Ctrl+Z action 
adds something to the excecption list.




o Go to Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Replace.
o Scroll down to and select the line showing the unwanted correction.
o Click Delete.
Voilà!

The problem: there *** IS NO *** (c) in the replacement list.
(only (R))
I have looked at least twice. In all three languages I use.
About the two initial caps: in the exception section I have only two 
choices: abbreviations (with a period) or two initial caps.

Where else would I have put my request?



When you want to reinstate it:
o Select the copyright symbol in your text.
o Go to Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Replace;  notice that the 
symbol is already in the With box.

o Type (C) in the Replace box.
o Click New.
I just entered (c) under "Replace" AND "With". For now, that seems to be 
working.

Although this seems to be a very strange behavior to me.

Thank you!
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] disable 2-digit options

2018-12-29 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
I am using Calc to maintain a list of patients including entries like 
name, age, date of birth etc.

I tried to set a consistent style to about 20 different sheets.
Sheet styles do not allow to adjust font etc.

I choose character style to set the desired font for all sheets.
Problem:
I DID set a certain "date format"
and
a certain "number format".

However, this gives me either an incomprehensible 5-digit number for the 
dates (of birth),
or alternatively a similarily incomprehensible 5-digit number for the 
age = 2 digits.


I found under:
Tools - Options - General -> a "Two digit options":


   Year (two digits)

Defines a date range, within which the system recognizes a two-digit year.

In LibreOffice, years are indicated by four digits, so that the 
difference between 1/1/99 and 1/1/01 is two years. This *Year (two 
digits)* setting allows the user to define the years in which two-digit 
dates are added to 2000. To illustrate, if you specify a date of 1/1/30 
or later, the entry "1/1/20" is recognized as 1/1/2020 instead of 1/1/1920.


That may be wonderful in certain situations, but leaves me having to 
choose between the "age" (MOST of my patients have a 2-digit age!!!) or 
"date of birth" of my patients.
And, naturally, having to format those columns by hand, for all sheets 
(and maybe all eternity)

AND ... my patients turn out to have a VERY strange "date of birth":
70 ("age" translates into ) 1900/3/10
25                                   1900/1/24
33                               1900/2/1    (I am sure, there is 
some logical rule, but I cannot see it)
The above cited help section does NOT indicate any way of how to 
*DISABLE *that function.

Is there a way to do so?
I tried to just delete the number in the year field. THAT did not work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
Thomas


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[libreoffice-users] (urgent) shift+down always selects TWO cells in a table

2019-02-02 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good morning
Using LibreOffice 6.0.5.2 (64-bit) on Windows 10

I just made a mistake somewhere: I hit some key combination that rotated 
the screen by 90 degrees.
Although I was able to fix that somehow, since then LibreOffice insists 
on selecting always TWO cells simultaneously

in a 2-column table to be translated. Using for example "Shift+Down".
Even in a newly created document.
I tried rebooting, but that does not change anything.
This is very disruptive to my work. Searching the help documentation I 
could not yet find any hints.
Since I am somewhat pressed for time with this work, I would very much 
appreciate any hints as to how to fix this.


LibreOffice did not behave like this before the screen rotation. I 
presume, something must have happened there.


Thank you.
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] automatic font selection in macro

2019-02-12 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good morning
I have another strange question.
Work related I have to insert not infrequently symbols into texts.
To make work easier, I have already created a number of macros to insert 
for example the symbol "micro" into a text using a keyboard shortcut.


Problem:
Let's say, I created the macro in a document that happened to use 
"Arial" as font and later want to use it in a document that uses "Times 
Roman". The macro I created then inserts an "Arial font micro" into the 
Times Roman text, which then looks out of place.


Is there a trick to create macros, so that the inserted symbol matches 
the surrounding font?

I have tried all sorts of things, but could not yet find a solution.
It is not really a "problem", but such an automatic font adjustment 
would be nice/helpful.


Thank you.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] automatic font selection in macro

2019-02-12 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2019/02/13 13:26, Andrew Pitonyak wrote:
if I wrote a macro that inserts the letter 'X', I would not expect the 
insertion to specify the font unless I went out of my way to do so.


I am interested in seeing the macro that you are using.


Well, I am not actually "writing" the macro - I have no idea how to do 
that.
I use "Tools -> Macros -> Record macro" and open the "insert special 
characters dialog box".

THIS is where the problem is.
As far as I can tell, there is no way NOT to select a font in that dialog.
On top you have the "Search / Font / Subset" fields.
"Font" gives you a list of fonts, but not the choice of "none / 
automatic" etc. - or allows you to delete the currently selected font.

I had been hoping to find that kind of choice.

Mr. Pitonyak. Please don't worry. I am not in a hurry. I have been 
pondering this for years already ...


Thank you.
Thomas Blasejewicz











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On Feb 12, 2019, at 9:55 PM, Thomas Blasejewicz <mailto:ny...@hb.tp1.jp>> wrote:


Good morning
I have another strange question.
Work related I have to insert not infrequently symbols into texts.
To make work easier, I have already created a number of macros to insert
for example the symbol "micro" into a text using a keyboard shortcut.

Problem:
Let's say, I created the macro in a document that happened to use
"Arial" as font and later want to use it in a document that uses "Times
Roman". The macro I created then inserts an "Arial font micro" into the
Times Roman text, which then looks out of place.

Is there a trick to create macros, so that the inserted symbol matches
the surrounding font?
I have tried all sorts of things, but could not yet find a solution.
It is not really a "problem", but such an automatic font adjustment
would be nice/helpful.

Thank you.
Thomas




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Re: [libreoffice-users] automatic font selection in macro

2019-02-12 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Addition
On 2019/02/13 13:26, Andrew Pitonyak wrote:
if I wrote a macro that inserts the letter 'X', I would not expect the 
insertion to specify the font unless I went out of my way to do so.


* Japanese font -> I was just playing around and this is NOT what I want.
This is what LibreOffice has recorded:

sub insertalpha
rem --
rem define variables
dim document   as object
dim dispatcher as object
rem --
rem get access to the document
document   = ThisComponent.CurrentController.Frame
dispatcher = createUnoService("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper")

rem --
dim args1(1) as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue
args1(0).Name = "Symbols"
args1(0).Value = "α"
args1(1).Name = "FontName"
args1(1).Value = "MS Pゴシック"

dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:InsertSymbol", "", 0, args1())

rem --
rem dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:InsertSymbol", "", 0, 
Array())



end sub

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[libreoffice-users] word completion

2019-03-14 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
Writer is so friendly as to offer "word completion" while typing.
I am grateful for that.
However, sometimes that list, found under Tools -> Auto Correct -> Word 
completion

contains "wrong" or outdated items.

I tried to delete a few, but the next time I type, they are always back 
as if nothing has happened.

Example:
informant / information
I have used both, but the former one is no longer required/desired.
So I opened said list and deleted "informant", but that apparently has 
no effect.


Is there a trick to convince the list, that I do not want this term any 
longer?


Thank you.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] edit autocorrection options

2019-03-14 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2018/12/24 16:46, Brian Barker wrote:

At 15:55 24/12/2018 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

The problem: there *** IS NO *** (c) in the replacement list. (only 
(R)) I have looked at least twice. In all three languages I use.


As you will have seen, V Stuart Foote finds ".*(C)" there.

I just entered (c) under "Replace" AND "With". For now, that seems to 
be working.



Since I am struggling with the autocorrect options again ...
I remember that entering (c) once worked .. but not any more.
(c) IS listed under exceptions, but nevertheless it is ALWAYS converted 
to the copyright symbol, regardless of what I do.


What I CAN do is: type "(c " followed by some other text and LATER add 
the right-sided bracket.

But that is a rather inconvenient procedure.

Any way out of this?
Thank you.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] edit autocorrection options

2019-03-16 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2019/03/16 9:28, Dave Howorth wrote:

>> The problem: there *** IS NO *** (c) in the replacement

Someone suggested the following and I would like to pass that idea on:

"Libre Office installs to an area on your system that isn't user 
specific, but is available to all users.  What you describe seems like 
the default autocorrect file is in that area, and has restricted access 
to your user account, so  you can read it, but not change or save it."


So, I copied the "autocorr" folder from the user profile to a folder 
where I keep all my LibreOffice staff.
"Added" the new location under Options->Paths and then selected the 
newly added folder as the location.


Now I can change the contents and after newly adding the "(c)" (which I 
still cannot find anywhere in the preexisting lists),

the thing WORKS!

Thank you!
I think, that was a brilliant idea.

Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] autotext? question.

2019-04-15 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good morning
I probably made a really stupid mistake somewhere.
Yesterday I noticed (in one of my computers only) that when I enter 
"Formula" and hit enter,
I get a table = 1 row/2 columns with the formula E=mc2 on the left and 
running number on the right.


Unfortunately I cannot remember where and what I did to make this happen.
I checked: autotext, macros, autocorrect options, customize-> keyboard 
(where I deleted "formula"-> F2)


Neither can I find this setting, nor did the keyboard customization have 
any effect.


Does anyone have an idea where I should be looking.
This is apparently NOT a LibreOffice problem, but I would still be 
grateful for hints.


Thomas


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: autotext? question.

2019-04-16 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2019/04/16 21:59, V Stuart Foote wrote:

Oh sorry , I see now. I'm not sure how you've linked the text string  
"formula"  to be a macro to launch the standard autotext.  Not aware it 
can be within LibreOffice.

Set as an os/DE keyboard macro--outside LibreOffice--but calling the "FN"+ 
autotext?


I am very sorry for the commotion.
This afternoon I found out, that disabling the option "Display remainder 
of the name as suggestion while typing"

seems to solve the "problem".

I am afraid, I have caused some unwanted excitement.
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] compose characters

2019-05-14 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good afternoon
I have to enter into a technical text a capital "M" with a short bar on 
top of it.

Some sort of mathematical expression indicating a vector.

I know there is something like "composing characters", but I cannot get 
it right.

All I ever get is a diacritical mark either left or right from the M.
I would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction.

While googling about this, I also found some talk a "autocorrect 
options" using : :

Yet, I cannot make this work either.
I suppose, there is a trick for this one too.

Thank you
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] offline help

2019-05-17 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good afternoon
A few days I upgrade my (Windows 10) installation to LibreOffice 6.1.5.2
I also installed the offline help package.

However, when I click on Help, it ALWAYS goes online.

Is there a trick to make the offline help package work?
Thank you
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] offline help

2019-05-20 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2019/05/17 19:40, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:

On 17/05/2019 11:09, Philip Jackson wrote:
Are you sure it's going on-line and not just displaying in a browser.
You are right: in 6.1.5 the offline help opens using a browser and in  
the URL field it starts with "file ..."


In an 6.0.7 installation on Linux Mint 19, where the offline help works,  
the file opens other than with a browser.


And in the 6.0.7 installation on a Windows 7 Workstation the computer  
tells me

"offline help is not installed"
HOWEVER, I installed both Japanese and English versions, each one alone  
and together,
tried to fiddle with the language setting (currently: interface =  
English, locale = Japanese), but that did not change anything.


This "offline help is not installed" is what I would like to change.
Have not yet had the time to upgrade to 6.1.5, but should it not be  
possible to install the offline help also for 6.0.7?


Thank you.
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] LO upgrade under Linux - delete old files

2019-06-03 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good morning
Probably I am just not smart enough (again).
I upgraded LibreOffice from 6.0.7 to 6.1.6 on a machine running Linux 
Mint 19.
The Readme file instructed me to run a dpkg command to unpack the .deb 
files after extracting them from the downloaded compressed file.

I did that.
It seemed to run fine and completed successfully.
When I clicked on the Writer icon I used before, it is still LibreOffice 
6.0.7 that opens.


Looking around, I found that there are OTHER LibreOffice icons, which 
start the 6.1.6 version.

Are those old files supposed to remain there under Linux?
An update on Windows deletes those (as far as I know).
Looking in software manager I am told, that Libreoffice is installed, 
but there is no distinction between 6.0.7 and 6.1.6.


If I update Libreoffice in the future again, will all the old files be 
retained?
Should I **uninstall** Libreoffice first and then make a fresh 
installation of the new version, or is there a way of cleaning out old 
files?
(I presume, after a fresh installation I have to set up my preferences 
etc. all over; that is something I would like to avoid.


Thank you.
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] List down?

2019-08-15 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
Is the list down?
I have not received a single message in almost a week.

Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and German software

2019-11-24 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good morning
I do not know, if I am allowed/supposed to ask this question here, but 
try it anyway.


I am using LibreOffice 6.1.5.2 on a Windows 10 machine and do not have 
any problems.
However, I recently noticed, that trying to start a German encyclopedia 
(Brockhaus) takes MUCH!more time, when Libreoffice is running.
And conversely, LibreOffice may "crash" (it says there, it is "not 
responding") when I start that German software.


As far as I can tell, this does NOT happen with any other software I 
have on my computer.


Is there some thing / place I should be looking into?
Since I am not using said software very often, this is not really a 
problem, but nevertheless I would like to know, what is going on.


Sorry for asking this kind of irrelevant question.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and German software

2019-11-24 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2019/11/25 13:09, James Knott wrote:

On 2019-11-24 10:17 PM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
Is there some thing / place I should be looking into? 


You might look into resources required vs resources available. What 
CPU and how much memory etc.  In Linux, there are utilities that show 
the load both on the system and as used by the various apps.  I expect 
similar may be available on Windows.




Thank you.
(two applications up and running) I do have 16 GB of RAM, 22% of which 
are used, the CPU (8 CPUs) usage is appr. 2%, running at about 3.9 GHz 
(Core i7 processor)

Should that not be enough?

And, the same two applications running on a lower spec Windows 7 machine 
do not cause any problems.

Or is it maybe Windows 10 that is causing the problem?
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice and German software

2019-11-25 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2019/11/25 14:01, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:

On 2019/11/25 13:09, James Knott wrote:

On 2019-11-24 10:17 PM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:


Thank you.
(two applications up and running) I do have 16 GB of RAM, 22% of which 
are used, the CPU (8 CPUs) usage is appr. 2%, running at about 3.9 GHz 
(Core i7 processor)

Should that not be enough?

And, the same two applications running on a lower spec Windows 7 
machine do not cause any problems.

Or is it maybe Windows 10 that is causing the problem?


Update
I just installed LibreOffice 6.2.8.
This does not change anything.
Probably I will have to live with this.
Which is not really a "big deal", as I said earlier.
Thomas


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[libreoffice-users] Language setting in Calc

2021-02-19 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
In my line of work (translator) I often forced to use MS Office files.
Right now I am working with an Excel worksheet.
I am not allowed to change file name, format or anything else am only 
supposed to enter

the German translation of a Japanese text into the designated columns.

Fine so far.
The original file is so formatted that there are font settings for 
English and Japanese.
When I work at home (right now) I select the relevant columns and change 
the language setting to German.
But when I go to my little work place and open the same file there, the 
language in those columns is back to English.
I changed it in my office to German again, but once I am home and start 
working here, it is back to English again.


Is there a way to tell Excel files to use a specific language AND STAY 
THAT WAY?


It would reduce unnecessary stress significantly.

Thank you.
Thomas

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Language setting in Calc

2021-02-20 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2021/02/20 6:14, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote:

This may be an answer.

Choose Tools - Options. Go to Language Settings - Languages. Under  
Default languages for documents, select the document language for all  
newly created documents. If you mark For the current document only,  
your choice will only apply to the current document.


https://help.libreoffice.org/4.4/Common/Selecting_the_Document_Language


Thank you, but I am afraid, that is not the answer.
The (Excel) file is the draft for the preparation of a questionnaire -  
to be translated into several languages (although the one I am currently  
working on has only 3 languages).
Means: I want certain columns ONLY to be set to German, while others  
next to it are set to English and Japanese.

Applying the language to the entire document does not do this trick.

Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] Collabora experience?

2021-03-12 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening from Japan
The following is probably really stupid. Please bear with me for a moment.

About 3 weeks ago I got a smartphone - first time ever. I did use an 
older mobile phone before, but deliberately refused to learn how to 
operate that thing.

(I hate these mobile phones)

Well, I also use something like Dropbox, but supposedly more secure = 
pCloud (based in Switzerland)
(if someone should sign up there and tell those guys, I referred you (no 
idea how that works), maybe I get a GB extra space ... but I am not 
trying to do any sort of business here)
Most of the files in there are created with LibreOffice, plus some text 
files and PDFs.

This pCloud is available for Android, so I installed it. So far, so good.
LibreOffice, however, is NOT directly available for Android. Therefore I 
was referred to "Collabora". Installed that too.


Problem:
When I try to open ANY file (except PDF), I get messages telling me, the 
file (ALL files) are "read-only" and saving is diabled.

If I want to access any file, I have to
* make the file available offline
* choose to edit it
* choose a software to do so (here Collabora), EVERY time
-> if successful, I am again asked, whether I want to open a read-only 
file, or edit a copy.
* if I edit a copy, that will then be stored somewhere in the phone and 
NOT in one of the folders on pCloud.
That renders the whole idea of having files "in the cloud" useless, 
doen't it?


The pCloud support send me (partially) the following:
"You can open the pCloud files with all kinds of 3rd party apps but 
unfortunately, you can not save the changes in pCloud.
You'll probably need a paid version of LibreOffice in order to save the 
changes to pCloud so you have to download the edited files locally and 
upload to pCloud.

If you wish to edit files directly from pCloud, you can use Google Sheets."
And Google Sheets etc. is something I do NOT want to use.

BTW, the same thing happens when I use AIRSEND. (have not tried anything 
else)


Has anybody any experience with using LibreOffice = Collabora with an 
Android smartphone?

Is there maybe a trick?
If not, that is just fine. I consider working with this miniture machine 
a form of "digital torture" anyway.


Sorry for the trouble
Thomas



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Collabora experience?

2021-03-14 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2021/03/12 23:11, Robert Großkopf wrote:

Hi Thomas,

could be the same here with LibreOffice Online for scools:
Set the mobile-phone Collabora to fullscreen. A blue pen appears. Press
on the blue pen. All must be writable now.


Well, **IF** I get to the Collabora full screen, I am still presented with:
"Do you want to open a read-only file / Do you want to open/edit a copy".
And this is not only with pCloud but also with Airsend the case.

Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] search for Asian font in English text

2021-04-14 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good morning.
I have this not very long English text with occasional Japanese 
characters in it.
I would like to search for ONLY the Japanese characters, naturally the 
font is different from the English but attribut "regular" and size are 
the same,

and if possible change their attributes (color, highlighting etc.).

Searching the net, I found:
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/140748/how-do-i-search-for-a-specific-font-in-writer/
"The Find and Replace dialog (Control+H) should be able to search for 
text by font. Leave the "Find" box blank. Then go Other options > Format 
and fill in the "Family" box."


However, that does NOT work.
I tried to search for all sorts of things: format, attribute, language 
etc., but so far nothing helped finding Japanese characters.


If anybody knows how to do that, I would be grateful for a hint.
Thank you.
Thomas


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Re: [libreoffice-users] search for Asian font in English text

2021-04-14 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good afternoon

On 2021/04/15 11:30, Michael H wrote:
Set your "other options" in the find/replace box to enable regular 
expressions


All Kanji characters, paste the following into search.

([一-龯]+)
In the replace section, paste
$1


That is great! It works.
Thank you!
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] specify an absolute sheet address

2021-06-12 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
I am probably, again!, too stupid to figure this out by myself,
so I would be grateful for a hint.

I have a file with something like 25 sheets listing the patients who 
visited my clinic before

grouped by year. In one sheet I have all names (about 2,000).

To make my work easier I set up a VLOOKUP function to help me enter zip 
codes.

In sheet 2021 that formula looks like
=VLOOKUP(N77,'Zip codes'.$A$2:$B$150,2,0)
and refers to a sheet with the zip codes 3 sheets to the right. This 
works fine.


However, when I copy the data (whenever there is something new) to the 
"ALL" sheet to the right of 2021,
I get a "N/A", because the formula AGAIN refers to the THIRD sheet to 
the right, that does not have any zip codes.


I tried to figure out, how to specify the sheet "Zip codes" as the 
absolute address,

like:     =VLOOKUP(N76,$zip codes.$a$2$:$zip #REF!.$B$220,2,0)
but so far all attempts (for quite a while now!) at placing those $ 
marks have resulted in errors.


I am sure, this is something very simple, but being a simpleton I just 
cannot figure it out.


Thank you.
Thomas

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

2021-06-14 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

On 2021/06/13 2:55, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
Another way to get around it is to name your range. Then your formula 
could

look something like =VLOOKUP(N76;ZipCodes;2;0)
Named ranges are absolute, always.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg

After futile efforts to make all those symbols work somehow, I recalled 
you mentioning "naming a range".
Since I did not know, there is such a concept, I did some reading and 
after a few experiments - I hope! - I may actually have solved my problem.
Defining the data range in the sheet "Zip codes", naming it "zipcodes" 
(this setting apparently does not accept spaces),

the formula seems to be working .. AND .. looks a lot friendlier!
=VLOOKUP(N79,zipcodes,2,0)

Your idea was VERY helpful! Thank you.
Even I can understand that formula.
(You used semicolons in your formula, mine has commas. Is there a 
difference?
Greetings from Japan where it is sunny (and rather hot) today, but we 
are about to enter the rainy season ...

Thomas Blasejewicz

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[libreoffice-users] Calc file "invalid parameter"

2021-06-21 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening

Again some strange question.


Recently LibreOffice, maybe the computer?, has started to act strange on 
some occasions. Checking the net, I found only ONE related item.


https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=96478

This is not really a "problem", but I would still like to know, what is 
going on.



I have a sort of "cloud storage" called pCloud, which creates a 5-GB 
virtual drive with its own drive letter on my HDD. There I store among 
other stuff files I use regularly and update several times a day. For 
some time now, a number of Calc files open alright, but when I edit them 
and hit "save", I get the following error message:


"Error saving the document "file name".

The operation [path / file name] was started with an invalid parameter."


When I rename the file, I can save it, but the same problem tends to 
recur when I open it the next time.


When I rename it and store it in a different location, the problem seems 
to disappear.


Probably all I have to do, is choose a different folder to save those files.

Yet, I would really like to know, what that "invalid parameter" refers to.


If anyone has any idea, I would love to hear it.

Thank you.

Thomas



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[libreoffice-users] Has something happened to the list?

2021-11-02 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
I was just wondering 
I have not receive any messages through this list for a week now.
Has something happened to the list?

Thomas Blasejewicz

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[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice crashes every day

2022-02-08 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening
Another probably stupid question.

As I said in my previous post, I am using 7.18 on a Windows 10 machine.
I upgraded to 7.18 a few days back from 7.12.

Since I am working on certain files both at home and in my little 
clinic, I tend to put those files on

cloud storage places like Dropbox and a few other services.

Since maybe 2 month now, LibreOffice crashes at least once DAILY; then 
asking me to send a crash report (which I always do).

I can be restarted normally, but often a portion of my work is lost.

Since I had trouble in the past using an online storage called "pCloud", 
I now use my local hard disk to save the files and

make copies to take them to the other place.

Still, this does not seem to change anything. LO still crashes at least 
once a day.

Other applications do not seem to be affected.

Is there something I may try to improve the situation?
Thank you.
Thomas

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[libreoffice-users] "save as" behave very strange

2022-02-08 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good evening from Japan
I have been using LibreOffice for years by now.
Currently I use 7.18 on a Windows 10 machine.

Let's say, I have a file "xyz" that is saved in one directory/folder.
Now I want to save it in a different location (different disk) where 
there are directories and folders of the same name.
The target folder also contains the file, but I want to overwrite it 
with a newer version.


E:\AA\filexyz.odt
Here I want to replace/overwrite the "filexyz.odt".
HOWEVER, the directory E:\AA\ ... has 2-3 more folders with related files.
Like: E:\AA\bb\xx\

When I try the "save as" command and indicate the directory-folder-file 
name ->
LibreOffice jumps to the next folder one level BELOW the one I want to 
save the file in.

And it keeps doing that so long, until there is no other folder any more.

LibreOffice did not do this in the past. Is there a particular reason 
for this behavior?
Is there a way to tell LibreOffice to save the file where I want it to 
be saved?


Any help would reduce unnecessary stress immensely.
Thank you.
Thomas



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Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice crashes every day

2022-02-09 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz

Good afternoon

On 2022/02/08 20:37, Dave Barton wrote:

There is no version 7.18 yet.
Well, the other day when I downloaded what was presented to me as the 
newest version, it was 7.1.8...

Thirty minutes ago I downloaded 7.2.5.2 and installed it.
It crashed almost immediately.
Starting in safe mode did not do much good.

And .. I just opened and ordinary writer file, currently without any 
images or graphics, and
LO writer simply does not keep up with my typing -> it 
working/responding VERY slow.

This is something new to me.
If this cannot be brought a little "up to speed", it would render 
Libreoffice useless.
Waiting for the letters typed to appear on the screen is not really 
acceptable these days.
(Windows 10 workstation, 2 XEON processors = 32 CPUs, 64 GB RAM, much 
more than enough storage space)


Is there something else I could try?
Thank you.
Thomas





If installing version 7.2.5.2 or 7.3.0.3 does not resolve your issue,
try the "Help -> Restart in Safe Mode..." menu option.

 Original Message 
From: Kolbjørn Stuestøl [mailto:kolbjo...@stuestoel.no]
Sent: Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 11:23 UTC
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice crashes every day


I had a similar problem with an earlier version, do not remember which
(7.2.4.x. ?), but switching to 7.2.5.2. solved it. Running on Windows 10.

Kolbjørn

Den 08.02.2022 12:04, skreiv Thomas Blasejewicz:

Good evening
Another probably stupid question.

As I said in my previous post, I am using 7.18 on a Windows 10 machine.
I upgraded to 7.18 a few days back from 7.12.

Since I am working on certain files both at home and in my little
clinic, I tend to put those files on
cloud storage places like Dropbox and a few other services.

Since maybe 2 month now, LibreOffice crashes at least once DAILY; then
asking me to send a crash report (which I always do).
I can be restarted normally, but often a portion of my work is lost.

Since I had trouble in the past using an online storage called
"pCloud", I now use my local hard disk to save the files and
make copies to take them to the other place.

Still, this does not seem to change anything. LO still crashes at
least once a day.
Other applications do not seem to be affected.

Is there something I may try to improve the situation?
Thank you.
Thomas






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