Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer loses format of MSOffice2007-Doc (watermark, embedded image, format etc)

Thanks; that makes sense. Wow, with the help of this list, I might make it from the middle-ground to the nerd status anon ;-) On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Andrew Brager wrote: Sounds like whatever is displaying the image isn't being initialized > properly for whatever reaso

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer loses format of MSOffice2007-Doc (watermark, embedded image, format etc)

Sounds like whatever is displaying the image isn't being initialized properly for whatever reason. "Reopening" it allows that function to execute with the proper parameters. To sit on the page in the proper place the coordinates of the image would have to be known and set properly. If the imag

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer loses format of MSOffice2007-Doc (watermark, embedded image, format etc)

yes; I've found a simple way to sometimes 'find' these hidden images is to minimize the window file ... then when you 're-open' it, these images appear; I think this is one of the mysteries of the electronic age - if anyone has a reason for this phenomenon

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Confluence Word doc export

On 28/07/2012 at 01:34, "anne-ology" wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Paul Keir wrote: > > > The problem document referred to in my earlier email can be found here: > > https://docs.google.com/open?**id=**0B8bUb5ZVQs7iNUthMGs4Ry0xSnM > docs.google.com/open?id=0B8bUb5ZVQs7iNUthMGs4Ry0xSnM

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer loses format of MSOffice2007-Doc (watermark, embedded image, format etc)

This is possible - when I want to view a document from another source in LO [and worked previously in OO], I merely 'select all' then 'copy' then 'paste' ... many times, the placement is off, but this can be fixed with a little time & effort. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Mi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Lost my spreadsheet

Hi Tom, Thanks for the reply. I've inserted some answers to your questions as noted below. I do back up my computer about once per week. Someone mentioned you have to go to Page to access your file. I went to Page Preview and that brought the file back in. I didn't have any problems with Libr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Confluence Word doc export

nothing appears using FireFox in WIN. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Paul Keir wrote: Hi, > > The problem document referred to in my earlier email can be found here: > https://docs.google.com/open?**id=**0B8bUb5ZVQs7iNUthMGs4Ry0xSnM

[Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Date format macro.

On 07/27/12 05:14, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 19.07.2012 23:48, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to create a macro for a user-defined date format (H:MMa/p). As examples, 7:00 AM would display as 7:00a and 3:33 PM as 3:33p. I can create the format manually, but I understand the LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me

Hi Jay, Thank you. Don On 07/27/2012 03:31 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 07/27/2012 02:01 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for that information. I was aware of that. I have two concerns with using it. First, it may update me when I don't want to be updated, like from 3.5.x to an early 3.6

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me

On 07/27/2012 02:01 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi Jay, Thanks for that information. I was aware of that. I have two concerns with using it. First, it may update me when I don't want to be updated, like from 3.5.x to an early 3.6.x. I generally don't go to a new LibreOffice series until the secon

Solved Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me

Hi Heinrich, Thank you for your kind words. I'm so glad I was able to help, and that things are working for you now. I'm far from an expert in Ubuntu and LibreOffice, but I would rate myself as above average in proficiency in certain aspects of both. When issues show up where I think I can hel

Re: [libreoffice-users] how block image/graphic to background for OTT?

On 27-07-12 16:32, manuel_songo...@yahoo.it wrote: hello i'm looking for : 1 - how block an image/a graphic to background for OTT? -because i wanted to create new document template for my colleagues not modify to background OR cancel background.. 2 - VERY IMPORTANT: i NEED to be disab

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me

Thanks, Don, There WAS a problem with the installation of the desktop-integration debs. I use Maya-KDE, by the way. I have removed libreoffice completely - as you suggest in your post and after installing the downloaded packages using dpkg - *deb everything works beautifully. Thanks again H.S. P.S

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me

Hi :) Ubuntu doesn't seem to manage to get early versions of branches in the repos quickly.  often people have complained about that but it works out quite nicely for me :) Regards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 27/7/12, Don C. Myers wrote: From: Don C. Myers Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] starti

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me

Hi Jay, Thanks for that information. I was aware of that. I have two concerns with using it. First, it may update me when I don't want to be updated, like from 3.5.x to an early 3.6.x. I generally don't go to a new LibreOffice series until the second beta has been finished, so for the 3.6 ser

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me

On 07/27/2012 12:26 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi, As I understand it, Mint uses the Ubuntu software center. The default LO install in Ubuntu does not include base. If the user wishes to have base installed, you would add that to the Ubuntu installation from the software center. If I install fro

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Date format macro.

On 07/27/12 05:14, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 19.07.2012 23:48, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to create a macro for a user-defined date format (H:MMa/p). As examples, 7:00 AM would display as 7:00a and 3:33 PM as 3:33p. I can create the format manually, but I understand the LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me

Mint is where I originally found MATE. Then I looked into installing it with Ubuntu 12.04. If you want your desktop to look and act the most like GNOME in 10.04, MATE was what I found to work the best. On 07/27/2012 12:26 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: Hi, As I understand it, Mint uses the Ubunt

Re: [libreoffice-users] Lost my spreadsheet

joto2036 wrote: Hi, I had LibreOffice 3.5.4 installed on my computer. After I downloaded LibreOffice 3.5.5 (before Installation) I couldn’t access my LibreOffice Calc (Which was a spreadsheet for my Medical & Dental Expenses). It was just a blank spreadsheet. I then Uninstalled LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me

Hi, As I understand it, Mint uses the Ubuntu software center. The default LO install in Ubuntu does not include base. If the user wishes to have base installed, you would add that to the Ubuntu installation from the software center. If I install from a direct LO download from LO, I have all o

[libreoffice-users] Lost my spreadsheet

Hi, I had LibreOffice 3.5.4 installed on my computer. After I downloaded LibreOffice 3.5.5 (before Installation) I couldn’t access my LibreOffice Calc (Which was a spreadsheet for my Medical & Dental Expenses). It was just a blank spreadsheet. I then Uninstalled LibreOffice 3.5.4 & then

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me

On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 10:41 -0400, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: > OK > I just installed the non-repository version of 3.5.5 as an "upgrade" to > 3.5.4 on my Ubuntu 12.04/MATE laptop. > > I still have Base listed, and working, in my Applications/Office menu > listing. Hi, Right - if you already

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base

On 07/27/2012 09:43 AM, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote: Hello, I have just installed libreoffice 3.5.5 on my lately upgraded Mint system (Maya). When I now start LO the entry for base doesn't appear. On the other hand, writer, impress, calc, etc. DOES appear. Any idea what might be the cause? Thanks

[libreoffice-users] how block image/graphic to background for OTT?

manuel_songo...@yahoo.it wrote:> hello > > I'm looking for : > > 1 - how block an image/a graphic to background for OTT? > -because i wanted to create new document template for my colleagues not modify to background OR cancel background.. > > 2 - VERY IMPORTANT: i NEED to be disable "ove

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base - works for me

OK I just installed the non-repository version of 3.5.5 as an "upgrade" to 3.5.4 on my Ubuntu 12.04/MATE laptop. I still have Base listed, and working, in my Applications/Office menu listing. It shows: LibreOffice 3.5 LibreOffice 3.5 Base LibreOffice 3.5 Calc

[libreoffice-users] how block image/graphic to background for OTT?

hello i'm looking for : 1 - how block an image/a graphic to background for OTT?    -because i wanted to create new document template for my colleagues not modify to background OR cancel background.. 2 - VERY IMPORTANT: i NEED to be disable "over mouse"...because when my mouse is over t

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base

I have not loaded 3.5.5, but I have 3.5.4 on my Ubuntu 12.04 laptop with MATE as its desktop environment and it does show Base in the applications/office menu. Also, I installed LibreOffice from the download site and not the repository. I was planning on installing 3.5.5 on the laptops [Ubun

Re: [libreoffice-users] starting Base

Hi, I run Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity. Did you download LO 3.3.5 from LibreOffice, or are you using the Ubuntu repository version. In Ubuntu, the default install from Ubuntu for LibreOffice does not include Base. It can be added separately through the software center. Be careful also not to mix t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer loses format of MSOffice2007-Doc (watermark, embedded image, format etc)

Hi :) I've often found that even tho images appear to have vanished they are still really there somewhere.  That gives at least 2 opportunities; 1.  Edit and save without trying to find the images and then see if the images apparently re-appear in the right places when the edited file is opened b

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer loses format of MSOffice2007-Doc (watermark, embedded image, format etc)

On 07/27/2012 03:28 AM, Miriyala, Vasu wrote: Hi Forum, Appreciate your pointers or help on how to open the MS office word files in writer while retaining the format of original intact. Currently Libre when opening MSOffice-word2007 docs loses water mark, embedded image, images inserted thru

Re: New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

Steve Edmonds wrote: BTW, I've worked in the telecommunications industry for most of my career and it's been over 30 years since the last time I saw an analog system. New Zealand would *REALLY* have to be a back water country to still be using an analog phone system. Well just on the outskir

[libreoffice-users] Re: Date format macro.

Am 19.07.2012 23:48, rhubarbpie...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to create a macro for a user-defined date format (H:MMa/p). As examples, 7:00 AM would display as 7:00a and 3:33 PM as 3:33p. I can create the format manually, but I understand the LibreOffice format can't save user-defined formats.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Confluence Word doc export

Hi, The problem document referred to in my earlier email can be found here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B8bUb5ZVQs7iNUthMGs4Ry0xSnM Like LibreOffice, Google Docs also cannot view it, though a link is provided to the original file, at the end of the line starting: "You can also try to d

Re: New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

On 26/07/12 12:51 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 07/24/2012 10:34 AM, James Knott wrote: Russell Wilson wrote: try starting with something like 1/4 population of New York, 1000 times its surface area, and 1/4 of 1% of its financial worth First off, I was thinking of the international

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer loses format of MSOffice2007-Doc (watermark, embedded image, format etc)

On 27/07/2012 at 09:28, "Miriyala, Vasu" wrote: > how to open the MS office word files in writer while retaining the format > of original intact. This is not possible. If you want to open MS Office with exactly preserved formatting, then you must use MS Office. Preferably in the same version in

[libreoffice-users] Writer loses format of MSOffice2007-Doc (watermark, embedded image, format etc)

Hi Forum, Appreciate your pointers or help on how to open the MS office word files in writer while retaining the format of original intact. Currently Libre when opening MSOffice-word2007 docs loses water mark, embedded image, images inserted thru "insert features of word 2007" etc Thanks,