Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Quickstarter

2012-01-24 Thread Cor Nouws
Pedro wrote (25-01-12 00:51) Carole wrote I unpack the files, go to the Installation Wizard, choose Typical, Start Install. and up comes a message saying “Please exit LIbreOffice 3.4 and LibreOffice Quickstarter before you continue ” [...] To close the Quickstarter to be able to install a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Bug report - pasting from Notepad to Calc

2012-01-24 Thread Calvin Kim
On 01/24/2012 05:22 PM, L S wrote: Hi, I'm not interesting in joining the mailing list or another membership, got plenty already! So I'm just sending you the details and someone else can post it. You can contact me if you want any more details. Operating System: Windows XP SP3 (up to date)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing default margins and font for a group of users

2012-01-24 Thread Carl
The user data is saved on a mapped drive on the server and the user profile is on the local PC as part of the user's windows profile. Yes all these users are using different flavours of Windows On 24/01/2012 16:38, Jay Lozier wrote: On 01/24/2012 03:39 AM, Carl wrote: Hi, I need to change th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot delete certain blocks of text with grey background ("Readonly content cannot be changed...")

2012-01-24 Thread Jay Lozier
Jason, On 01/24/2012 08:47 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: Hi, I have a document that was sent to me in 'docx' format. Certain blocks of text within it (always inside square brackets) are rendered with a grey background. I can click inside the grey area and edit the contents, and I can edit the rest of

[libreoffice-users] Cannot delete certain blocks of text with grey background ("Readonly content cannot be changed...")

2012-01-24 Thread Jason Heeris
Hi, I have a document that was sent to me in 'docx' format. Certain blocks of text within it (always inside square brackets) are rendered with a grey background. I can click inside the grey area and edit the contents, and I can edit the rest of the document, but if I select an entire block of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add pdf as page in document

2012-01-24 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 24/01/12 6:37 PM, upscope wrote: On Monday, January 23, 2012 09:32:29 PM Jeff Prater wrote: Your best bet would be to convert your newsletter to a PDF first. Then, insert the form into the PDF using PDF authoring software like Adobe Acrobat. That's what I would do. This will not work. Firs

[libreoffice-users] Re: Error messages on starting LO

2012-01-24 Thread Tom
Hi :) This guide might help? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile but Cor is right because you can change from the default given in that guide (allegedly) so it's possible yours is completely different. Cor's method is the only way of being completely certain of where your

[libreoffice-users] Re: Quickstarter

2012-01-24 Thread Pedro
Carole wrote > > I unpack the files, go to the Installation Wizard, choose Typical, Start > Install. and up comes a message saying “Please exit LIbreOffice 3.4 and > LibreOffice Quickstarter before you continue ” > > I have not a clue what this message means or what to do. > The Quickstart

[libreoffice-users] Quickstarter

2012-01-24 Thread Carole Edwards Caruso
This question probably has been answered previously, but I am new to LibreOffce so please have patience with me. But, from my reading, I see I am not the only one with this problem. I unpack the files, go to the Installation Wizard, choose Typical, Start Install. and up comes a message saying “

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: some text not printing

2012-01-24 Thread George E Noon
Yes. I think I have --- plus a real and, I hope, a lasting reminder of the importance of making and maintaining backups. George On 01/24/2012 05:37 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: George E Noon wrote (24-01-12 22:04) Yes -- actually it was in the post you just quoted from, missed it there ;-) but he

[libreoffice-users] Re: Images in Tables

2012-01-24 Thread AndrewB
Calvin Kim wrote > > Double click on image in table. > When 'Picture' dialog box appers, in 'Type' tab, select 'Anchor' to 'As > character'. > Brilliant, that does exactly what I want. As for the borders: If it means nesting tables, or learning CSS, then I think I'll learn to live with standar

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: some text not printing

2012-01-24 Thread Cor Nouws
George E Noon wrote (24-01-12 22:04) Yes -- actually it was in the post you just quoted from, missed it there ;-) but here is the pertinent part [...] So the good news: all prints fine here (also when even/odd apart). Do not see any anomalies in your text too (apart from some direct format

Re: [libreoffice-users] Images in Tables

2012-01-24 Thread Calvin Kim
On 01/24/2012 05:32 PM, Calvin Kim wrote: On 01/24/2012 05:10 PM, AndrewB wrote: When I put an image into a table cell, on its own, I always seem to get an empty line of text between the bottom of the image and the bottom of the cell. I would like the image to completely fill the cell (give

Re: [libreoffice-users] Images in Tables

2012-01-24 Thread Calvin Kim
On 01/24/2012 05:10 PM, AndrewB wrote: When I put an image into a table cell, on its own, I always seem to get an empty line of text between the bottom of the image and the bottom of the cell. I would like the image to completely fill the cell (give or take a narrow border all round). I have fou

[libreoffice-users] Bug report - pasting from Notepad to Calc

2012-01-24 Thread L S
Hi, I'm not interesting in joining the mailing list or another membership, got plenty already! So I'm just sending you the details and someone else can post it. You can contact me if you want any more details. Operating System: Windows XP SP3 (up to date) Libre version: LibreOffice 3.4.4 O

Re: [libreoffice-users] Images in Tables

2012-01-24 Thread Calvin Kim
On 01/24/2012 05:10 PM, AndrewB wrote: When I put an image into a table cell, on its own, I always seem to get an empty line of text between the bottom of the image and the bottom of the cell. I would like the image to completely fill the cell (give or take a narrow border all round). I have fou

[libreoffice-users] Images in Tables

2012-01-24 Thread AndrewB
When I put an image into a table cell, on its own, I always seem to get an empty line of text between the bottom of the image and the bottom of the cell. I would like the image to completely fill the cell (give or take a narrow border all round). I have found that the "Wrap" options may have some

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: some text not printing

2012-01-24 Thread George E Noon
Yes -- actually it was in the post you just quoted from, but here is the pertinent part page 1, the lower half of page 3 (following the fifth line of Article I), page 5, lower half of page 7 (following the first line of Article IX, Section 2, Fifth), and the lower half of page 9 (all of Article X

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: some text not printing

2012-01-24 Thread Cor Nouws
George E Noon wrote (24-01-12 21:33) Now for the weird part!: as soon as I saw your post, to which I'm replying, life is full of surprises :-) Hope someone has some idea of what's going on. Not yet. Do you know from a previous post which parts were missing? Prevents me spoiling 4 sheets at

[libreoffice-users] Re: some text not printing

2012-01-24 Thread George E Noon
Yes, now this has turned out really strange! Each previous time, I was printing both sides of pages; I'd print the odd numbered pages, then after print the even numbered pages, after reinserting the odd numbered pages into the printer with the blank sides up. Doing that - page1, the lower half of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer always selects "PDF" instead of Postscript

2012-01-24 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi John, Yes, you are correct. That does say PDF, and yes, I have seen that before. All of the printers I use say that, but that does not mean that it is printing in PDF format. Right now I have a HP OfficeJet Pro 8000 inkjet connected to this computer, as well as a Samsung ML 1710 monochrome

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printer always selects "PDF" instead of Postscript

2012-01-24 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:50:34 -0800 (PST) Tom dijo: >Hi :) >Have you already opsted a bug-report about this? If not this link >might help >http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Haven't posted a bug report yet. Hoping that it is a setting that I can change. But thanks for the link. If I ca

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: How to migrate OpenOfficec Writer settings into LinbreOffice Writer

2012-01-24 Thread Maurice Batey
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:35:13 +, I wrote: > 1 Mandriva user of LO 3.4.4 reports 'not there', whereas Although I've just booted Mandriva 2011 (KDE) and its LO 3.4.3 *does* show the Open/Save option... -- /\/\aurice -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.lib

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer always selects "PDF" instead of Postscript

2012-01-24 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:08:16 -0500 "Don C. Myers" dijo: >Hi, > >I have been following this thread, and quite honestly, I have never >seen this issue. I've been using LibreOffice since the first 3.3.x >version, through all of the updates to presently 3.4.5. I have it on >at least 9 machines. All o

Re: [libreoffice-users] one language in the installer libre office

2012-01-24 Thread Jay Lozier
On 01/24/2012 11:51 AM, Mieszko Kaczmarczyk wrote: W dniu 24.01.2012 09:57, Łukasz Janik pisze:polish text:dla wszystkich byłoby lepiej, jakby był jeden język i słownik w instalatorze, aby był mniejszy, żeby za każdym razem ściągać po 200 mb, tylko po 135 mb. proszę mnie popi

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printer always selects "PDF" instead of Postscript

2012-01-24 Thread Tom
Hi :) Have you already opsted a bug-report about this? If not this link might help http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport We have just had a weird question that shows differences with LO's dialogues in different DEs (Desktop Environments). A dialogue in KDE ws very different from what ever

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: one language in the installer libre office

2012-01-24 Thread Tom Davies
HI :) Ahhh, it would be great if Windows had an official package manager that could look after all the apps, not just the MS ones and could make sure everything on the system got updated instead of just patches for Window's own security flaws.  Something that could help people pick and choose th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: some text not printing

2012-01-24 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi George, (combined your two mails) George E Noon wrote (24-01-12 18:45) Here is the 'offending' file http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3685565/By-Laws_FranklinLodge23IOOF.odt By-Laws_FranklinLodge23IOOF.odt I have discovered that there is another copy of in, about 3.6 kb smaller; hav

[libreoffice-users] Re: some text not printing

2012-01-24 Thread George E Noon
Well, to the best of my knowledge & understanding - limited though it may be - that is just what I did. I will repeat the attempt. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3685565/By-Laws_FranklinLodge23IOOF.odt By-Laws_FranklinLodge23IOOF.odt Hopefully, it worked this time... George -- View

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer always selects "PDF" instead of Postscript

2012-01-24 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi, I have been following this thread, and quite honestly, I have never seen this issue. I've been using LibreOffice since the first 3.3.x version, through all of the updates to presently 3.4.5. I have it on at least 9 machines. All of the machines have been upgraded through Ubuntu 10.10. 11.

[libreoffice-users] Re: some text not printing

2012-01-24 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry, i should have said that when you want to upload to Nabble you have to be in the 'forum' there and use reply. Then click on the "More" button to see the "Upload a file" option. Apols and regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/some-te

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mysterious formats in a document converted from MS Word

2012-01-24 Thread Johannes Sixt
Am 23.01.2012 22:05, schrieb Johannes Sixt: > I have a imported a 200-page document from MS Word 2000. Looking at > content.xml (that is in the resulting .odt), is see that every single > space character is wrapped with its own style, like this (line breaks > inserted for exposition only, they are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add pdf as page in document

2012-01-24 Thread upscope
On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:53:52 AM webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: > I use Linux [Ubuntu 10.04] and there are several free PDF editing > packages for Linux. One should do what you want. > > You also can print PDF through the CUPS-PDF driver. So any package > that prints, li

[libreoffice-users] Re: some text not printing

2012-01-24 Thread George E Noon
Here is the 'offending' file I have discovered that there is another copy of in, about 3.6 kb smaller; have not switched to it & attempted to print yet. Thanks to everyone for all attempts at helping. George -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/some-text-not-pri

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer always selects "PDF" instead of Postscript

2012-01-24 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:05:19 -0500 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions dijo: >I am sorry you are not getting any help. I wonder it it is an >isolated issue for Fedora 16. If people have not see this happen >before, it is hard to figure out what is causing it. > >So is there any issues with

[libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 RC 1, Calc - Failed xls import due to "CaseWare" function?

2012-01-24 Thread Kevin Salisbury
Background: I have used, LO 3.4.x Calc on both Linux and Windows as well as 3.5 RC1 Calc on Linux. Issue Description: Excel spreadsheet opens and views fine in the default Windows Excel viewer. When opened with the latest (and older) version of Calc for editing, we see "#ADDIN?" in each of th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing default margins and font for a group of users

2012-01-24 Thread Fernand Vanrie
On 24/01/2012 15:38, Jay Lozier wrote: On 01/24/2012 03:39 AM, Carl wrote: Hi, I need to change the default margins and font in Libreoffice Writer and Calc for a group of about 100 users. How can I do this without having to go and do it manually on every PC? Regards Carl Werner Where is th

Re: [libreoffice-users] one language in the installer libre office

2012-01-24 Thread Mieszko Kaczmarczyk
W dniu 24.01.2012 09:57, Łukasz Janik pisze:polish text:dla wszystkich byłoby lepiej, jakby był jeden język i słownik w instalatorze, aby był mniejszy, żeby za każdym razem ściągać po 200 mb, tylko po 135 mb. proszę mnie popierać w tej sprawie, z góry dzięki.Wbrew pozorom ni

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add pdf as page in document

2012-01-24 Thread Don C. Myers
There are different pdf merge utilities in the Ubuntu Software Center. thank you Webmaster. There are times I could really use something like that, and never thought to check for one!! On 01/24/2012 10:53 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: I use Linux [Ubuntu 10.04] and t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: some text not printing

2012-01-24 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi George, This isn't an answer to your printing problem, but I think you mentioned in one of your posts about you had two scanners that didn't work with Ubuntu. May I ask what the make and models are? I've installed Ubuntu on over 20 computers, originally starting with 8.10, and every version

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: one language in the installer libre office

2012-01-24 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 01/24/2012 08:05 AM, Pedro wrote: Hi Lukasz Łukasz Janik wrote for all would be better if it were a language and a dictionary in the installer to be smaller, so that every time download of 200 mb, 135 mb only. Please support me in this matter, thanks in advance. This was discussed before

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer always selects "PDF" instead of Postscript

2012-01-24 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
I am sorry you are not getting any help. I wonder it it is an isolated issue for Fedora 16. If people have not see this happen before, it is hard to figure out what is causing it. I have never had any issue with Ubuntu 10.04 and HP Color Laserjet 2600n. It has been a few years since I has

[libreoffice-users] Re: some text not printing

2012-01-24 Thread Tom
Hi :) You can upload to Nabble. Once you have followed the links or navigated to your thread here it is very much like attaching to an email. Even people that are not using Nabble can see the uploaded file then :) Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfounda

Re: [libreoffice-users] Add pdf as page in document

2012-01-24 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
I use Linux [Ubuntu 10.04] and there are several free PDF editing packages for Linux. One should do what you want. You also can print PDF through the CUPS-PDF driver. So any package that prints, like Firefox or Thunderbird, can have its output in a PDF format. I am positive that there is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell

2012-01-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks Andreas.  It works!  There are all sorts of neat tricks but that is the fastest way to enter dates.  I hope that helps our op. Thanks and regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 24/1/12, Andreas Säger wrote: From: Andreas Säger Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a form

[libreoffice-users] Database selection in mail merge.

2012-01-24 Thread Oldlace
I am using mail merge for letter creation from within a form in Base. The base letter(s) were created in writer without problem. The View/Database (or F4) displays the explorer and fields from the database correctly. Whenever the form letter is opened the database is shown as selected and correctl

[libreoffice-users] Re: Changing default margins and font for a group of users

2012-01-24 Thread Tom
Hi :) Would copying the UserProfile be a good way to get all the settings copied? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile It might be worth doing a search for how to do a corporate deployment of LibreOffice or OpenOffice (or a large-scale deployment). Regards from Tom :) -- V

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell

2012-01-24 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 24.01.2012 15:17, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think for data-entry it is best to enter the date as 01/24/2012 If you want to enter dates of the current month (January 2012 at the time of this writing) then you simply enter 1/ 13/ 4/ 30/ 15/ This will enter the *correct cell values* _unless_

Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing default margins and font for a group of users

2012-01-24 Thread Jay Lozier
On 01/24/2012 03:39 AM, Carl wrote: Hi, I need to change the default margins and font in Libreoffice Writer and Calc for a group of about 100 users. How can I do this without having to go and do it manually on every PC? Regards Carl Werner Where is the user data stored? If on a server, crea

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell

2012-01-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think for data-entry it is best to enter the date as 01/24/2012 and then have the cells formatted to display that in whichever way you want.  It feels a bit weird to enter a date as numbers and then see it displayed as word&numbers but doing it that way makes everything else fall into pl

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell

2012-01-24 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 24.01.2012 13:58, MSwhip wrote: This is my reply to all of you that made suggestions or stated your views. They were all very useful. With regards to the question about what exactly I was asking, the first issue was ...should I enter the date as "24 January 2012," or "January 24 2012" or '0

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to enter Dates in a format to allow the counting of days lapsed between a "from a date" cell and a "to a date' cell

2012-01-24 Thread MSwhip
This is my reply to all of you that made suggestions or stated your views. They were all very useful. With regards to the question about what exactly I was asking, the first issue was ...should I enter the date as "24 January 2012," or "January 24 2012" or '01/24/2012' or 24/01/2012 for the sof

[libreoffice-users] Re: one language in the installer libre office

2012-01-24 Thread Pedro
Hi Lukasz Łukasz Janik wrote > > for all would be better if it were a language and a dictionary in the > installer to be smaller, so that every time download of 200 mb, 135 mb > only. Please support me in this matter, thanks in advance. > This was discussed before back in November 2010 (when

Re: [libreoffice-users] Changing default margins and font for a group of users

2012-01-24 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Carl , You can change the default template by running a macro on every machine hope it helps Fernand Hi, I need to change the default margins and font in Libreoffice Writer and Calc for a group of about 100 users. How can I do this without having to go and do it manually on every PC? Rega

Re: [libreoffice-users] RE: Bespoke background images

2012-01-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Congrats on finding an answer!  Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 22/1/12, chasm wrote: From: chasm Subject: [libreoffice-users] RE: Bespoke background images To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 22 January, 2012, 23:16 Hi Tom, I eventually found the answer by trawling through

[libreoffice-users] one language in the installer libre office

2012-01-24 Thread Łukasz Janik
polish text: dla wszystkich byłoby lepiej, jakby był jeden język i słownik w instalatorze, aby był mniejszy, żeby za każdym razem ściągać po 200 mb, tylko po 135 mb. proszę mnie popierać w tej sprawie, z góry dzięki. english text: for all would be better if it were a language and a dictionar

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Error messages on starting LO

2012-01-24 Thread laurent alonso
Le 24 janv. 2012 à 10:11, Cor Nouws a écrit : > Hi Lena, > > Lena wrote (24-01-12 00:20) > >> I have the same errors at my mac LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1(Build:502) >> I need to correct the user profile? How? > > I don't know where Mac has the user profile. But you can find out yourself > whe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Error messages on starting LO

2012-01-24 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Lena, Lena wrote (24-01-12 00:20) I have the same errors at my mac LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1(Build:502) I need to correct the user profile? How? I don't know where Mac has the user profile. But you can find out yourself when you look at Tools > Options > LO General > Paths There is som

[libreoffice-users] Re: Error messages on starting LO

2012-01-24 Thread Lena
NoOp sbcglobal.net> writes: > > On 09/26/2011 11:21 AM, Rev. Nick Sharp wrote: > > Thanks - that did the trick. > > > > N > > You are most welcome Rev. > Hi, guys I have the same errors at my mac LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1(Build:502) I need to correct the user profile? How? Thanks -- For

[libreoffice-users] Changing default margins and font for a group of users

2012-01-24 Thread Carl
Hi, I need to change the default margins and font in Libreoffice Writer and Calc for a group of about 100 users. How can I do this without having to go and do it manually on every PC? Regards Carl Werner -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? h