Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

2014-03-26 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 26/03/2014 04:48, Brian Barker a écrit : Your history as a programmer is relevant - but leads me to an opposite conclusion. +1 Styles are another way of separating data and presentation which is a long standing programming mantra. A programmer should be interested in that. --

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Document

2014-03-26 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 25/03/2014 22:32, Dale Erwin a écrit : Yes, but there is more to it than just the first word and the last word. The first word is straightforward enough, except that sometimes it might consist of more than just one word. But the last word does not refer to the actual last word on the

Re: [libreoffice-users] conditional formatting broken?

2014-03-26 Thread Alex McMurchy
Tom Perhaps a bit more detail would be useful can you give us the steps that you are following. The steps below would change the font colour of all selected cells that contains the number 0 to the same as the white background, i.e. they become invisible. * Select cells to conditionally

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

2014-03-26 Thread James E Lang
Hi, Tom and others. I am finding this discussion to be intellectually stimulating though I have no idea as to the mechanics involved in developing or using master documents. What you write about saving time is most likely very true. However I have probably never written a document with more

[libreoffice-users] Keep DEFAULT UNFORMATTED TEXT for CTRL+V or Paste

2014-03-26 Thread manuel_songokuh
hello please keep to default unformatted text for ctrl+v or pop-up or style like as ms office word...why not? -- 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:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

2014-03-26 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 3/26/2014 6:08 AM, James E Lang wrote: Hi, Tom and others. I am finding this discussion to be intellectually stimulating though I have no idea as to the mechanics involved in developing or using master documents. What you write about saving time is most likely very true. However I have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Keep DEFAULT UNFORMATTED TEXT for CTRL+V or Paste

2014-03-26 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 3/26/2014 8:25 AM, manuel_songo...@yahoo.it wrote: hello please keep to default unformatted text for ctrl+v or pop-up or style like as ms office word...why not? I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but if you hit shift+ctrl+v you will see several options, including one to paste the

[libreoffice-users] Calc - conditional cell formatting - recently modified?

2014-03-26 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello all, I'd like to be able to apply a background color to some cells based on whether or not they were modified within the last x days... Anyone know if this is possible? I have a feeling not, but you never know... thx -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] shutdown glitch

2014-03-26 Thread rmg
I've been transferring a fairly mature bunch of spreadsheets from Ooo to LO and there's one remaining problem. The front end sheet has a [Goodbye] button to close it which finds all open docs, closes them and then closes the front end. Both the find-open-components stuff and the close stuff

Re: [libreoffice-users] shutdown glitch

2014-03-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:32:20 + rmg perm...@dick.georgeson.me.uk wrote: Hello rmg, When you shut down after pressing [Goodbye] (which you do, it's a dedicated machine) you get '/usr/lib/libreoffice/soffice not responding'. If you close the front end with the close button you don't - but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

2014-03-26 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 03/25/2014 11:48 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 09:33 25/03/2014 -0400, Tim Lungstrom wrote: As a person who learned to type on a typewriter and learned programming on a mainframe computer [since the PC did not exist at that time], I have not learned how to do styles. Never really needed it,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

2014-03-26 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:06 26/03/2014 -0400, Tim Lungstrom wrote: Your coding statement[s] seem to suggest Object Orientated Programming. No: that's a straw man. What I said applies to programming generally (as someone else has confirmed). ... in any of the mainframe languages I learned or used. Your

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

2014-03-26 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Perhaps, we could get folks past the Underwood model if office suites stopped offering that as a legitimate option for creating typeset documents. *Proper* document processing software should indeed *enforce* total separation of structure(d content) and style information through *exclusive*,

Re: [libreoffice-users] conditional formatting broken?

2014-03-26 Thread Tom Cloyd
Alex, Thanks for that wonderfully detailed and explicit response. I hope it is useful for others, in the future, who may find it through a search of the forum. Unfortunately, to my original request for help, Brian Barker responded, but to ME ONLY. I didn't notice this, and responded to him,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

2014-03-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I wish MS had got that memo! Sadly that seems to be the opposite of MS's view. So people have learned to; 1. need to keep a print-out as hard copy 2. assume every document to be unsable in 3 years time 3. fight hard against any change or upgrade because they know it will break their

Re: [libreoffice-users] conditional formatting broken?

2014-03-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) OOops, other Tom, sorry! Regards from Tom :) On 26 March 2014 11:48, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) Ahh, i cheat. 1. Select the cell, row, column, area or even entire worksheet. 2. Format - Cells - Number (the 1st tab in the pop-up) 3. In Category down the left-hand

Re: [libreoffice-users] conditional formatting broken?

2014-03-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, i cheat. 1. Select the cell, row, column, area or even entire worksheet. 2. Format - Cells - Number (the 1st tab in the pop-up) 3. In Category down the left-hand side, click on Number 4. tick the box that says Negative numbers red Regards from Tom :) On 26 March 2014 07:56, Alex

Re: [libreoffice-users] Keep DEFAULT UNFORMATTED TEXT for CTRL+V or Paste

2014-03-26 Thread Tom Davies
hi :) Please find the Italian mailing lists (or whichever language you feel most comfortable with) http://it.libreoffice.org/supporto/ I'm not completely clear what the question is this time. Please restate in Italian. Ctrl v = normal paste Ctrl Shift v = paste special Paste special gives a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

2014-03-26 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2014-03-27 01:54, Virgil Arrington wrote: On 3/26/2014 6:08 AM, James E Lang wrote: Hi, Tom and others. I am finding this discussion to be intellectually stimulating though I have no idea as to the mechanics involved in developing or using master documents. What you write about saving

Re: [libreoffice-users] Keep DEFAULT UNFORMATTED TEXT for CTRL+V or Paste

2014-03-26 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2014-03-27 01:56, Virgil Arrington wrote: On 3/26/2014 8:25 AM, manuel_songo...@yahoo.it wrote: hello please keep to default unformatted text for ctrl+v or pop-up or style like as ms office word...why not? I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but if you hit shift+ctrl+v you will

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

2014-03-26 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2014-03-27 03:06, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 03/25/2014 11:48 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 09:33 25/03/2014 -0400, Tim Lungstrom wrote: As a person who learned to type on a typewriter and learned programming on a mainframe computer [since the PC did not exist at that time], I have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

2014-03-26 Thread Felmon Davis
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Virgil Arrington wrote: On 3/26/2014 6:08 AM, James E Lang wrote: Hi, Tom and others. I am finding this discussion to be intellectually stimulating though I have no idea as to the mechanics involved in developing or using master documents. What you write about saving

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

2014-03-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Actually i find even then styles help quite a bit. I don't use Master Documents or sub-documents yet but the basics help. For the new document you can; 1. right-click on the style, such as text-body (although i think it might be better to create a new one by copying that to a new name)

Re: [libreoffice-users] conditional formatting broken?

2014-03-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 but we all have trouble remembering and getting it right all the time. There are so many other cases were Reply all or Group reply feels wrong or might even be really bad. This mailing list used to have it so that it would default to the list and sending off-list (= back-channel) was

[libreoffice-users] Re: Impress doesn't print in colour

2014-03-26 Thread CVAlkan
Off the wall, I suppose, but I have a printer that is set up to automatically print in grey-scale when one of the color ink cartridges runs out. That behavior can be changed, of course, but have you looked at your printer to see if it is somehow the cause and not LO? Frank -- View this message

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

2014-03-26 Thread Mark Bourne
Virgil Arrington wrote: On 3/25/2014 5:34 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: How would you define a paragraph style to handle a dictionary entry such as this: *canuscere*/v.t./ to know, to be familiar with. I see my formatting was lost on that example. The headword canuscere would be in 11 pt.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Documents, Office Suites, and the Underwood

2014-03-26 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 3/26/2014 6:15 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: Virgil Arrington wrote: Quite honestly, I rarely use character styles, but in this case where you're changing two characteristics (9 points to 11 and normal weight to boldface), the character style would help ensure consistency throughout the document.

[libreoffice-users] copy cell formatting in Calc

2014-03-26 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
Good afternoon I have been trying this for a long time, but had no success so far. In Calc I select a certain range of cells / rows / columns. Select copy and then paste that selection into an empty space or even a new spreadsheet. HOWEVER, the cell formatting is never maintained! I mean