Re: [libreoffice-users]

2014-02-13 Thread Keith Bates
Hi Maddie There are many services which enable you to do that. Dropbox (www.dropbox.com) is one popular service with apps for mobile phones and tablets. Another service is Google Drive (drive.google.com) There are also many others. Keith On 13/02/14 13:54, maddie10...@gmail.com wrote: are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help

2014-02-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I got this message off-list. It doesn't seem to have anything controversial or confidential so i'm sending it back to the mailing list. Please use "Reply to all" rather than just "Reply". If the message goes to just 1 person they might not be around for a while and no-one else can check th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Neat Writer Feature -- Relative Font Sizes

2014-02-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Styles rock!!! :)) I didn't know they could go that extreme and usually try to switch-off the relative font-sizes because the idea freaks me out. It feels like everything goes outside of my direct control! However that means i would have to adjust each heading-level individually which now

[libreoffice-users] Re: Neat Writer Feature -- Relative Font Sizes

2014-02-13 Thread Pedro
Hi Virgil, all Virgil Arrington wrote > I just thought I’d share a neat feature I recently discovered in Writer. > > The ability to set font sizes in styles as a percentage of the font size > of a base style. Thank you for sharing. It is a great idea to share this kind of positive information.

Re: [libreoffice-users]

2014-02-13 Thread James Knott
maddie10...@gmail.com wrote: > are people with libreoffice able to have an account that they can save work > to so that they don't have to use the same computer all the time. > > I am a middle school student and I am doing this from a home computer and I > want to be able to access my spreadsheet

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help

2014-02-13 Thread Ruth Ann
On 2/13/2014 4:04 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Tom, >Thank you for your e-mail. I am running window 7. I will reinstall and >reboot to see the problem >will resolve. > >Thank you. > >Mario Hey Mario, I have found that it is good practice to always reboot first and then do the install. You never know

Re: [libreoffice-users]

2014-02-13 Thread Virgil Arrington
If you're only talking about a few files, you can easily email them to yourself as attachments. Then when you get to school, just open up the email and your files will be there. There are also some cloud services out there, like Google Docs where you can store your documents online and access

Re: [libreoffice-users] Neat Writer Feature -- Relative Font Sizes

2014-02-13 Thread Virgil Arrington
Tom wrote: I didn't know they could go that extreme and usually try to switch-off the relative font-sizes because the idea freaks me out. It feels like everything goes outside of my direct control! Ahh, control. That's one of the reasons I like LO; it gives me control over *everything*. By c

[libreoffice-users] Re: Similar Problem?

2014-02-13 Thread Vince Radice
John, I tried creating a new configuration like you suggested. I ran for several days with no empty files being created. Yesterday, I went in and clicked the Always Create Back up Copy. This morning I was on and made a few changes to the data base, ran a report, and then went to save t

[libreoffice-users] Re: Neat Writer Feature -- Relative Font Sizes

2014-02-13 Thread mariosv
I think it is a very old option, from Ooo times, that we can find out in the help. Maybe we need to recover the habit of read the manuals. I know it was easier, when long time ago, programs came with a heavy book. Miguel Ángel.

Re: [libreoffice-users]

2014-02-13 Thread Thomas Taylor
Or, you could just use a flash drive to transport the files if your school allows their use. Tom On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:30:22 +1100 Keith Bates wrote: > Hi Maddie > > There are many services which enable you to do that. Dropbox > (www.dropbox.com) is one popular service with apps for mobile

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Neat Writer Feature -- Relative Font Sizes

2014-02-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think some people here do read the manuals https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications But i agree that it might be good for certain people (mostly thinking about me tbh) to dip in and read-up even on just 1 feature per week or month or however long. Actually part of th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Neat Writer Feature -- Relative Font Sizes

2014-02-13 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 02/13/2014 08:04 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think some people here do read the manuals https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications But i agree that it might be good for certain people (mostly thinking about me tbh) to dip in and read-up even on just 1 feature per week o

[libreoffice-users] Possible Bug in 4.2.0.4 Copy Paste in Firefox ESR 24.3ESR

2014-02-13 Thread Dan Czuchra
Hi all, I think I may have found a bug/strange combo with the release 4.2.0.4. I have some users of LO that are unable to copy/paste text into Gmail emails. They can copy paste into Firefox search bars and url bars just fine, but nothing gets copy/pasted in an email in Firefox. I've cleared the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Possible Bug in 4.2.0.4 Copy Paste in Firefox ESR 24.3ESR

2014-02-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Wow!! That looks perfect for a bug-report https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Versions numbers and everything there makes it much more useful. I rarely notice such things but lately there seem to have been a few such issues between various programs in Windows. Regards from Tom :)

[libreoffice-users] Error

2014-02-13 Thread Angela Turkington
Hi I am receiving a message the following disk images could not be downloaded when I attempt to download libreoffice. Can you please contact me ot correct this. Thanks Angela -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mail

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error

2014-02-13 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 13/02/2014 21:43, Angela Turkington a écrit : > > I am receiving a message the following disk images could not be downloaded > when I attempt to download libreoffice. > Can you please contact me ot correct this. > Where (what website) are you downloading from? The official download (interna

Re: [libreoffice-users] Neat Writer Feature -- Relative Font Sizes

2014-02-13 Thread e-letter
On 13/02/2014, Virgil Arrington wrote: > > Ahh, control. That's one of the reasons I like LO; it gives me control over > > *everything*. By comparison, when I've used LaTeX, I've been overcome by the > Not convinced. > beautiful results, but the trade-off is that I lose control. > What control

Re: [libreoffice-users] Neat Writer Feature -- Relative Font Sizes

2014-02-13 Thread Virgil Arrington
e-letter wrote, What control is lost in latex? Fair question, and I probably should have worded it better. Yes, with LaTeX, you can control everything, but (at least in my experience) the learning curve to gain that control can be daunting. The GUI of LyX makes things easier, but even then,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Neat Writer Feature -- Relative Font Sizes

2014-02-13 Thread e-letter
On 13/02/2014, Virgil Arrington wrote: > e-letter wrote, > >>What control is lost in latex? > > Fair question, and I probably should have worded it better. Yes, with LaTeX, > > you can control everything, but (at least in my experience) the learning > curve to gain that control can be daunting. Th

[libreoffice-users] Writer "record changes" feature

2014-02-13 Thread Alan B
With the "record changes" feature turned on and the "show changes" feature enabled any changes made to a Writer document are clearly seen. If the "show changes" feature is disabled the original document is displayed. The changes are not lost and the document with edits can be displayed by once aga

[libreoffice-users] libreoffice developers for hire

2014-02-13 Thread Luis Felipe Marzagao
Hello: I'd link to fund a bug solving. Where I can I find libreoffice developers for hire? Thanks! -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.docum

Re: [libreoffice-users] Neat Writer Feature -- Relative Font Sizes

2014-02-13 Thread Peter West
TeX (and LaTeX) is one of those things I was always "gunna" learn to use. More power to you. -- Peter West "What comes out of a man is what defiles him." On 14/02/2014 8:55 am, e-letter wrote: OK, fair enough but as a latex user, was amazed to read a claim that LO provides greater control! :)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer "record changes" feature

2014-02-13 Thread anne-ology
How about saving the changed document under a different name; when I'm unsure of changes, I'll save a document with a - following the name then when I return to the documents I have the first, unchanged one, and the working one with that - following it. In th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer "record changes" feature

2014-02-13 Thread Dale Rebgetz
On 14/02/2014 12:18 pm, Alan B wrote: With the "record changes" feature turned on and the "show changes" feature enabled any changes made to a Writer document are clearly seen. If the "show changes" feature is disabled the original document is displayed. The changes are not lost and the document

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer "record changes" feature

2014-02-13 Thread Brian Barker
At 20:18 13/02/2014 -0500, Alan Bonly wrote: With the "record changes" feature turned on and the "show changes" feature enabled any changes made to a Writer document are clearly seen. If the "show changes" feature is disabled the original document is displayed. Really? Is this a bug or, if n

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer "record changes" feature

2014-02-13 Thread Alan B
Thanks for the thought. It's not quite as KISS as I'd like though. I haven't used MS Word for a while, when I did, this was available. It was possible to see a document in it's original form, with all edits displayed, or as if all edits are accepted. That function, or a close approximation, is wh

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer "record changes" feature

2014-02-13 Thread Alan B
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Dale Rebgetz wrote: > > The way it works for me is if "show changes" is de-selected (after the > changes have been made), then what I see is what you are asking for - the > CHANGED document, not the original. > > Dale. > > Made me look Dale, you're right. It is the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer "record changes" feature

2014-02-13 Thread Alan B
The way it works for me is if "show changes" is de-selected (after the > changes have been made), then what I see is what you are asking for - the > CHANGED document, not the original. > > Dale. > ...and p.s. sorry to get folks off on the wrong track. I was hurrying through an unfamiliar document

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer "record changes" feature

2014-02-13 Thread Dale Rebgetz
On 14/02/2014 2:16 pm, Alan B wrote: Would like to be able to toggle state between original, edits displayed, and edits "accepted" versions of the document. In the MS Word of a few years ago this was straightforward to do (could click icons on a tool bar) and something that I found very conven

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer "record changes" feature

2014-02-13 Thread Brian Barker
At 22:06 13/02/2014 -0500, Alan Bonly wrote: I haven't used MS Word for a while, when I did, this was available. It was possible to see a document in its original form, with all edits displayed, or as if all edits are accepted. That function, or a close approximation, is what I'm hoping is avai

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer "record changes" feature

2014-02-13 Thread Jonathon
On February 13, 2014 5:18:58 PM PST, Alan wrote: >Is there a way to display the changed document, as if all edits are accepted, >*without* accepting the changes?? IOW, "show changed document". Probably not the way you want to do things, but installing OOoSVN, and regular saves to SVN will let

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer "record changes" feature

2014-02-13 Thread Brian Barker
At 22:16 13/02/2014 -0500, Alan Bonly wrote: Would like to be able to toggle state between original, edits displayed, and edits "accepted" versions of the document. "Accepted" in quotes because they wouldn't really have been committed otherwise the other document states would be lost. It's od

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Neat Writer Feature -- Relative Font Sizes

2014-02-13 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 13/02/2014 20:02, Ian Whitfield ha scritto: On 02/13/2014 08:04 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think some people here do read the manuals https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications But i agree that it might be good for certain people (mostly thinking about me tbh) to dip