Re: [libreoffice-users] Automatic Capitalization of First Word

2013-09-07 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Dale Erwin To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 17:09:37 -0500 > I know I have done this before, but I can't remember now where I found > the setting. I would like to disable the capitalization of the first > word in a sentence or para

[libreoffice-users] Automatic Capitalization of First Word

2013-09-07 Thread Dale Erwin
I know I have done this before, but I can't remember now where I found the setting. I would like to disable the capitalization of the first word in a sentence or paragraph. I am not sure if I am subscribed to this list. I send an empty message to users+subscr...@global.libreoffice.org but I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table Breaks in Writer

2013-09-07 Thread Steve Edmonds
And trying now I had to the lines between and couldn't the line. Then I could merge tables. Always wondered how to do that. Steve On 2013-09-08 05:48, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) This is a public mailing list so it's a bit informal. Hopefully several people will help steer this to arrive at a r

[libreoffice-users] Mail Merge on Linux: Save files with a field as part of the name

2013-09-07 Thread L Duperval
Hi, On Linux, I would like to do a mail merge and save the documents using one of the fields as part of the name. From this link: http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/13555/mail-merge-to-separate- documents-with-file-names-based-on-merge-fields/ It seems like I should have an option to use a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base: How to Duplicate a Record

2013-09-07 Thread John Boyle
To Alex: How does that apply to Libre Office, or does it still? On 9/7/2013 12:09 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 06/09/13 23:46, T Hopkins a écrit : Hi Tod, I cannot find a method for duplicating a single record or row in a Base table or form. I want to create new records that contain data

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

2013-09-07 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 10:55:55 -0700 Bruce Byfield dijo: >On Friday 06 September 2013 10:47:49 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 20:18:34 -0700 >> >> Bruce Byfield dijo: >> >For now, I'll just say that Writer is not a word processor so much >> >as an intermediate desktop publishing

[libreoffice-users] Re: oops! Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-users] Fedena 2.3.4 is Now Available

2013-09-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Fred has been looking into it a bit more but we still haven't worked out if it really is bad.  It's still looking like a good product but it is more comparable with these;  http://open-school.org/ http://akuraschools.org/ http://centresis.org/ I think Moodle is something a bit different

[libreoffice-users] oops! Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-users] Fedena 2.3.4 is Now Available

2013-09-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Fedena is apparently not free and it's not a distro!  I'm not sure why i thought it was!  It is a "Management Information System", for schools, so it's more like a suite of modules inside a program or a suite of programs.  There is an Open Source core of programs/modules but then you wo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

2013-09-07 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Saturday 07 September 2013 05:39:41 AM Virgil Arrington wrote: > > No doubt, many publishers are simply publishing the files sent to them that > are created by word processors. L No, they're not, actually. You don't find publishers using MS Word files, which are simply not up to the job. >I'

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

2013-09-07 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Friday 06 September 2013 10:47:49 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 20:18:34 -0700 > > Bruce Byfield dijo: > >For now, I'll just say that Writer is not a word processor so much as > >an intermediate desktop publishing program. You can actually > >substitute it very successfully

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table Breaks in Writer

2013-09-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This is a public mailing list so it's a bit informal.  Hopefully several people will help steer this to arrive at a right answer that suits you.  We might have to ask a few 'dumb' questions to try to clarify things along the way.  Feel free to do the same.  1.  Have you considered using C

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Suse & Collabora Story

2013-09-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry about "throwing a strop" yday.  There is 1 person that routinely blocks any post i try to make to the marketing list.  It's not "all of TDF".  Just a couple of individuals having a personality clash, not a conspiracy.  I've been trying to remember a quote from "Lord Vetinari" in Ter

[libreoffice-users] Table Breaks in Writer

2013-09-07 Thread Robert Burnett
Good afternoon, after 2-3 hours today, no idea how many hours on other days on the following problem, so I have decided to contact you to find the solution. Problem, I use writer and have a 2 page document that holds a table on each page. As time passes the size of the table on page one change

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-users] Fedena 2.3.4 is Now Available

2013-09-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I would not normally have redirected this one from the moderators filtering.  Normally i would have let it go straight through to the spam dump.  It is "just another distro", like Ubuntu, SuSE, Redhat, Fedora, Mageia and the rest.  The main twist in this ones case is that it focusses on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

2013-09-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1  On the rare occasion i have glanced through newspapers in the last few years i have noticed really bad kerning between words on different lines.  I doubt LaTeX is really perfect either although it probably is a shed load better than Writer/Word.  Getting the spacing right between word

[libreoffice-users] Fedena 2.3.4 is Now Available

2013-09-07 Thread Fedena
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[libreoffice-users] Do you have information for this error

2013-09-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks but is it possible to add a path to the Japanese Extension?  or to move the Japanese Extension to the right place?  The suggestion of re-naming the User Profile would get rid of all the Extensions, configurations and settings which is likely to fix the immediate problem but i don

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

2013-09-07 Thread Virgil Arrington
Bruce Byfield wrote: I know of several publishers who work directly from ODF files. With a couple of exceptions, Writer has most of the tools needed for a thoroughly professional design job, allegedly because when the original code was being written in the days of Star Division, they were told

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

2013-09-07 Thread Virgil Arrington
Ken, I'm about as anal as they come when it comes to fonts, and I've never really noticed much difference among the ones I use when it comes to white space around punctuation. I'll have to give them a closer look. As to legal papers, many lawyers do use full justification in their legal brie

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base: How to Duplicate a Record

2013-09-07 Thread Paul Lens
Following method works pretty good for me: - open your form; - use the filter (one of the icons on the bottom right of the form window) to select the existing record to duplicate (or to select a small set of records including the intended one); - activate an additional table view (one of the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base: How to Duplicate a Record

2013-09-07 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/09/13 23:46, T Hopkins a écrit : Hi Tod, > I cannot find a method for duplicating a single record or row in a Base table > or form. I want to create new records that contain data from an existing > record. Any suggestions? > Look up clone / copy a record in Base in the openoffice.org

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base: Automatically Open a Form?

2013-09-07 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/09/13 23:49, Tod Hopkins a écrit : Hi Tod, > I am looking for a method to automatically opening default form when opening > a Base file. Any ideas? > There is/was an extension that provided a similar, if not identical "button press entry/menu page" - can't remember what it was called no