[libreoffice-users] Re: Marching ants, Calc, Xorg, CPU usage, Ubuntu

chimak111 wrote > > ... > Does LibreOffice have an alternative to the use of marching ants at least > for Linux? > Turning off anti-aliasing helps. I came across this workaround here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/462487 (comment #13). I'll have to keep a watch f

[libreoffice-users] auto-complete font style

Readers, Is it possible to configure LO writer auto-complete function such that the font style is maintained? For example, the word 'explanation'. If the caps-lock is activated, the auto-complete offers to complete word in lower case: EXPLAnation It would be better if the auto-complete function

Re: [libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow

> > On 07/22/2012 11:05 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > >> Hi :) >> Ok, so i have posted 'a few' anti-MS posts but not everyone is ready to >> suddenly jump into the alien world of the scary sounding GNu&Linux or >> unix-based OSes. Windows is supplied on almost every machine bought >> anywhere in the wor

Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

It is spelled with uppercases when I open them and see its name in the window's title box. But either way, I use it more than the Software Center. With my stroked-out typing skills, at times it is much safer to install anything either from a package manager or the software center than it wo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

On 07/22/2012 02:36 PM, Dan wrote: I believe that the correct spelling is synaptic. (It is spelled this way for my Ubuntu 11.10.) You are correct, I tend to capitalize names even when they are not capitalized. Jay Lozier wrote: On 07/22/2012 01:04 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2012/7/21 Anthon

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Labeling in Calc

Hi :) I think that no you have an answer there is no need to continue to pursue this or deal with ongoing discussion about it.  It's fine to just walk away from it.  That was a good point about "You've absorbed the cost of your own time and pegged it's value at zero.".  Base might be a better

[libreoffice-users] Re: Filter rows of certain dates, LibreOffice Calc

Am 22.07.2012 19:31, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. However, I failed making it work. I tried a few different variations on that and either nothing happened at all, or I got an error message saying that there are no valid filter parameters in that range of cells. Kind regar

Re: [libreoffice-users] Date format macro.

On 07/21/12 18:46, Dave Barton wrote: Original Message From: rhubarbpie...@gmail.com To: Dave Barton Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:59:52 -0500 On 07/21/12 00:45, Dave Barton wrote: Original Message From: rhubarbpie...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Labeling in Calc

On 7/22/2012 10:34 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Enter raw data into a spreadsheet (Excel, Gnumeric, Calc, whatever), a text editor, some dBase application, a true database, whatever. Connect a Base document to the tabular data source and design a report. But that's the point isn't it. I've got

Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

I believe that the correct spelling is synaptic. (It is spelled this way for my Ubuntu 11.10.) Jay Lozier wrote: On 07/22/2012 01:04 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2012/7/21 Anthony Easthope : Hi I was wondering what would be considered the core fonts on Microsoft. After ages fruitless searchi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

I try to keep the same set of "core fonts" - not just MS core web fonts - on all of my computers whether they are Windows or Ubuntu systems. I tend to have over 100 fonts installed on these systems for greater flexability on the look of my documents printer/exported to PDF for distribution.

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice pause during startup

On 07/21/2012 07:24 PM, anne-ology wrote: CCleaner is not necessarily a registry cleaner ... it can do that; but it mainly is used to clean out the caches. And there are more than this one listed on this site - Gizmo's Freeware Utilities . Igor a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

On 07/22/2012 01:04 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2012/7/21 Anthony Easthope : Hi I was wondering what would be considered the core fonts on Microsoft. After ages fruitless searching I was wondering if anybody could help me on what they would consider to be core fonts. I backed up my fonts folde

Re: [libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow

I went into using Ubuntu 9.10 for my default system when I bought my current desktop. I still use 10.04 on it. I had run other version of Linux before going to Ubuntu, but Ubuntu was the only Live CD/DVD that allow the sound system to work properly on my HP AMD64 CPU laptop that I used for

[libreoffice-users] Re: Labeling in Calc

Am 22.07.2012 16:19, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) That is true. So why not use the fastest route to get the required result and stick with spreadsheeting for now? Definitely a good idea to start vaguely thinking about moving to a database program when time&resources permits. Base is not yet ready

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Filter rows of certain dates, LibreOffice Calc

2012/7/22 Andreas Säger : > Am 22.07.2012 13:27, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >> >> I searched for Standard Filter examples and the only thing I found had >> a string or a number in the Value fields. I want to use an expression >> instead, but that doesn't seem possible, or maybe I'm just doing it >> wr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

2012/7/22 webmaster-Kracked_P_P : > > The key was to find the core fonts package first. > > Yes, I see your point with using the terminal for doing the installation of > packages, but you need to know what those packages are. > > Also, if you use a package manager, or the Software Center, you can s

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Chart Office compatibility issue

Hi Andreas, Andreas Säger schrieb: Am 22.07.2012 18:10, Regina Henschel wrote: A first step might be to add a request to LO bugzilla. But I personally liked more, when named ranges would be possible. Kind regards Regina Named ranges are named formula expressions. Formula expressions woul

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Labeling in Calc

Exactly Tom. With Calc, setup cost and time is next to zero, with data entry not much more. With Base setup cost and time is non-negligible and data entry is much more time (and therefore real dollar cost) consuming as each field needs to be filled in by hand when using a form. With a spread

[libreoffice-users] Re: Chart Office compatibility issue

Am 22.07.2012 18:10, Regina Henschel wrote: A first step might be to add a request to LO bugzilla. But I personally liked more, when named ranges would be possible. Kind regards Regina Named ranges are named formula expressions. Formula expressions would include constant arrays. -- For

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Chart Office compatibility issue

Hi, davews schrieb: Regina Henschel wrote Hi, davews schrieb: I have received an xls spreadsheet created in Office which contains charts. But the charts appear blank - there are bars/columns on sheet 2 and graphs/lines on sheet 3. You can find the spreadsheet http://www.btinternet.com/~dse

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5 with Lubuntu

Hi :) Perhaps rename your User Profile to "get back to factory defaults"? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile Regards from Tom :)  --- On Sun, 22/7/12, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: From: Peter Hillier-Brook Subject: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5 with Lubuntu To: u

Package managers, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

Hi :) It doesn't matter which package manager you use.  They all keep track of anything done in any of the others by keeping 1 central database of what is on your system which each package manager then uses and just presents the information differently.  Possibly dpkg is a little different.  The

[libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow

Hi :) Ok, so i have posted 'a few' anti-MS posts but not everyone is ready to suddenly jump into the alien world of the scary sounding GNu&Linux or unix-based OSes.  Windows is supplied on almost every machine bought anywhere in the world so why change at all?!  If you have realised why then h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Labeling in Calc

Hi :) That is true.  So why not use the fastest route to get the required result and stick with spreadsheeting for now?  Definitely a good idea to start vaguely thinking about moving to a database program when time&resources permits.  Base is not yet ready for masses and does take some fairly co

Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

Hi :) +1 Searching is easier in a nice gui package manager such as Synaptic but if you have a good guide to follow it's easier to copy&paste stuff.  I would tend to use the "--help" command before following anyone's guidance tho uless i'm happy to hose the system and reinstall the OS.  For examp

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice pause during startup

Hi :) Errr, i think the paging file = pagefile.sys?  Probably changed name in Vista and Win7.  The pagefile.sys used to be the name of the Windows virtual memory.  The registry is something completely different that MS kept trying to get rid of but couldn't in order to retain backwards compatib

Re: [libreoffice-users] Which template categories are built-in, how to name custom ones?

Hi Friedrich, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau schrieb: Hi, Am Dienstag, 10. Juli 2012, 09:04:54 schrieb Friedrich W. H. Kossebau: I need help with understanding how the naming of the template categories is done, especially for custom categories. I have basically 2 questions, listed at the end. I fou

Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

The key was to find the core fonts package first. Yes, I see your point with using the terminal for doing the installation of packages, but you need to know what those packages are. Also, if you use a package manager, or the Software Center, you can search for the packages and install them f

Re: [libreoffice-users] Restore Separate Navigator Window?

Hi :) Brilliant!!  Nicely fixed :)) Congrats and regards from Tom :)  --- On Sun, 22/7/12, Jonathan Levi wrote: From: Jonathan Levi Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Restore Separate Navigator Window? To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 22 July, 2012, 13:37 Tom: your grab-and-dra

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice pause during startup

Hi :) It is the files on the drive (or rather, partition) that get fragmented.  Not the partition itself.  Ntfs tries to cramp all the files onto the beginning of the drive.  When you add things to a file then it can no longer fill the space comfortably so a chunk of the file needs to be writt

[libreoffice-users] Re: Labeling in Calc

Am 22.07.2012 01:48, Andrew Brager wrote: On 7/21/2012 10:47 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 20.07.2012 23:50, Andrew Brager wrote: Nevermind, I figured it out. In case anyone else has a similar desire and wants to know... I simply select all the rows I want to belong to a group, add a border aro

Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

Hi again (sorry for the double-posting)  :) The issue about New Zealand's connection to the rest of the world cropped up years ago in Ubuntu.  I think either Universities there or the authorities or someone ran a big hosting site to mirror "the essentials" and somehow Ubuntu managed to get mirr

Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

Hi :) Most places have no qualms about adding an extra amount to the purchase price to cover postage&packing.  The problem is that people try to get away with paying for as little as possible and try to give a sob-story so you have to be very straight-forwards sometimes and just insist on it. 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office on an iPad.

Hi :) This sounds brilliant!  I think it's got to be worth beta testing just to see how well it works.  Definitely a good way forwards for those people with a good internet connection.  Regards from Tom :)  --- On Sat, 21/7/12, Dan wrote: From: Dan Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Of

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice pause during startup

Hi :) The devs are doing a "code clean up" as part of the whole process.  The whole code has been reduced by somewhere around 30% last time i heard.  Even before the code-clean-up started, and AOO at the moment, are still far tinier than MS Office.  For something really tiny you might having a

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5 with Lubuntu

I'm running LO 3.5 under Lubuntu 12.04 and, until recently the relevant icons appeared under "Office" in the menu system. Now they don't and I have to start the program via the command line. Any ideas anyone? For information the installation is the "real" LO installed via dpkg, not the Ubuntu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Restore Separate Navigator Window?

Tom: your grab-and-drag solution worked. Brian: So did your control-doubleclick toggle, except for MacOS X I had to use command (Apple-key)-doubleclick instead. Thanks to you both, Jonathan -Original Message- From: Tom Davies To: users Sent: Sun, Jul 22, 2012 8:13 am Subject:

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice pause during startup

Hi :) In Ubuntu i try to use "The Janitor" occasionally or from the grub-boot-menu choose "recovery mode" and then "Clear some space".  I think some other distros offer that 2nd option but i don#'t know how to or even if i would want to risk trying the janitor in other distros.  Regards from To

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Labeling in Calc

Hi :) +1 Your solution sounded like the most visually appealing too, which helps! :)  There is always the possibility of migrating it to a database later on if it grows and becomes unweildy or if the assistants skill level turn out to be higher than expected.  Regards from Tom :)  --- On Su

Re: [libreoffice-users] Which template categories are built-in, how to name custom ones?

Hi :) I think the Docs Team discussed the issue a couple of years ago but i think changing it would be tons of hard work for very little gain.  I think the names grew almost organically over the previous decade so i don't think there is a coherent and consistent decision about the names chosen.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Restore Separate Navigator Window?

Hi :) Can't you just grab it and drag it loose? Regards from Tom :)  --- On Sun, 22/7/12, Brian Barker wrote: From: Brian Barker Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Restore Separate Navigator Window? To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 22 July, 2012, 13:09 At 07:14 22/07/2012 -0400,

[libreoffice-users] Re: Filter rows of certain dates, LibreOffice Calc

Am 22.07.2012 13:27, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I searched for Standard Filter examples and the only thing I found had a string or a number in the Value fields. I want to use an expression instead, but that doesn't seem possible, or maybe I'm just doing it wrong. For example: Column A>= Today

Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

Hi :) I found the name for Ubuntu 10.04, so the command would be: sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer and installing Synaptic Package Manager would be:  sudo apt-get install synaptic but i agree with Johnny that it sounds like Ubuntu 12.04 and i suspect he has checked the exactly r

Re: [libreoffice-users] Restore Separate Navigator Window?

At 07:14 22/07/2012 -0400, Jonathan Levi wrote: My document's Navigator has somehow gone from being its own window to a pane in the main document. I need the first behavior, because I'm writing a script based on a separate Navigator window. Can anyone tell me how to restore it? Using LibreOffic

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can I populate a whole row in Spreadsheet by importing from Database into only one cell?

2012/7/22 Brian Barker : > At 17:35 21/07/2012 -0700, Kuuga Noname wrote: >> >> I want to, in the weapon and armor tables, be able to populate the whole >> row with relevant data simply by selecting an item in the Name columns. For >> example, if I enter Broadsword in the weapon name column I want

Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

If you type in mscorefonts in the software center search block, it is available there. On 07/22/2012 07:32 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2012/7/22 Tom Davies : Hi :) There is always at least 1 distro that renames things a bit. In this case i think it's Ubuntu so it might be worth searching you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

Here is the page for ms core fonts for Ubuntu 12.04: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+package/ttf-mscorefonts-installer Synaptic needed to be manually installed starting about 11.04. Don On 07/22/2012 07:32 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2012/7/22 Tom Davies : Hi :) There is always at least

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can I populate a whole row in Spreadsheet by importing from Database into only one cell?

Hi :) This is exactly the sort of thing that would be best done as a relational database.  You have many tables each with a specific type of focus.  For example, something like Table 1 = Weapons Table 2 = Armour Table 3 = Character types Table 4 = Skills and abilities Then you can have a main

Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

2012/7/22 Tom Davies : > Hi :) > There is always at least 1 distro that renames things a bit. In this case i > think it's Ubuntu so it might be worth searching your package manager to get > the right fonts > Regards from > Tom :) Well, the OP said he had Ubuntu, but not which version. I assumed

[libreoffice-users] Filter rows of certain dates, LibreOffice Calc

I searched for Standard Filter examples and the only thing I found had a string or a number in the Value fields. I want to use an expression instead, but that doesn't seem possible, or maybe I'm just doing it wrong. For example: Column A>= Today()-7 Doesn't work at all. The only thing that

[libreoffice-users] Restore Separate Navigator Window?

My document's Navigator has somehow gone from being its own window to a pane in the main document. I need the first behavior, because I'm writing a script based on a separate Navigator window. Can anyone tell me how to restore it? Using LibreOffice 3.4.1, MacOS X 10.4.11. Jonathan -- For unsu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

Hi :) There is always at least 1 distro that renames things a bit.  In this case i think it's Ubuntu so it might be worth searching your package manager to get the right fonts Regards from Tom :)  --- On Sun, 22/7/12, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: From: Johnny Rosenberg Subject: Re: [libreoffice-