Re: [libreoffice-users] paste into the edit box

2014-04-22 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 04/21/2014 08:20 PM, Dave Liesse wrote: I, on the other hand, avoid that mouse thing like the plague. I can still type a command line command faster than going through three layers of a menu. Dave I'm with Dave on this one. I find the mouse slows me down and interrupts my work flow

[libreoffice-users] Re: Fwd: Why new page style after manual page break changes all pages?

2014-04-22 Thread Nino Novak
On 21.04.2014 22:30, Dale Erwin wrote: [...] I have never had this problem and have never had the need to create sections. Maybe it's because I always use page styles alternating from right page to left page and back. For instance, I begin a book with a page style called Title, marked as

Re: [libreoffice-users] paste into the edit box

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Different strokes for different folks. I like switching and trying to navigate systems sometimes using only the mouse and other times only the keyboard. Usually just for fun but i've had a couple times when something temporarily went wrong and left me with no choice. For once i was

[libreoffice-users] Stilhaus Kitchens Review

2014-04-22 Thread gogomendes
This Forum is probably the best forum that i have ever used and i would just like to say how proud i am to be a member of this forum -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Stilhaus-Kitchens-Review-tp4106001.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at

[libreoffice-users] CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread H K
Good day, I have tried to register but without success.  I am trying to find assistance with the conversion of a Microsoft Global Template (Normal.dot) to be used with LibreOffice Writer as the Global template. The template was 'created' for me for ofice convention service writing and I am

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Fwd: Why new page style after manual page break changes all pages?

2014-04-22 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:15 21/04/2014 -0400, Sean Darcy wrote: On 04/21/2014 08:55 AM, Kevin O'Brien wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Sean Darcy wrote: With libreoffice-writer-4.2.3.3-4.fc20.x86_64, I'm trying to write a simple business letter: first page : header company logo footer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Fwd: Why new page style after manual page break changes all pages?

2014-04-22 Thread Brian Barker
At 14:35 22/04/2014 +0200, Nino Novak wrote: On 21.04.2014 22:30, Dale Erwin wrote: I have never had this problem and have never had the need to create sections. Maybe it's because I always use page styles alternating from right page to left page and back. For instance, I begin a book with a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: ADD NEW MENU BUTTON IN CALC MENUBAR

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Does anyone know how to get into the code and be able to modify it for a local organisation? Should this question go to the devs mailing-list now? I think all the side-issues have now been resolved but the main part of the question still remains. Btw i hope everyone had a good easter, or

[libreoffice-users] Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-22 Thread NoOp
On 04/18/2014 10:00 AM, Sophie wrote: ... To answer you specific question now: Le 18/04/2014 17:37, alnuwer a écrit : So I guess I have 3 choices: Do nothing - I'm running version 4.2.2.1 (I have it set to auto update) Go back to 4.1.5. Will I be giving up functionality? Go to 4.2.3.3. But

[libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread anne-ology
MSFT has been/is making their system(s) incompatible with others in order to reap a higher profit-margin ;-( Therefore switching away from MSFT is a great way to - possibly - show them the errors of their ways ;-) Now, if you could explain just what you're attempting to

Re: [libreoffice-users] paste into the edit box

2014-04-22 Thread anne-ology
Well, I use right-click then paste for anything; has always worked for me ;-) From: John R. Sowden jsow...@americansentry.net Date: Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:09 PM Subject: [libreoffice-users] paste into the edit box To: users@global.libreoffice.org why can't I right click on

[libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread Urmas
anne-ology MSFT has been/is making their system(s) incompatible with others in order to reap a higher profit-margin ;-( For the last 23 years Microsoft Office has changed its format TWICE. Meanwhile, Libreoffice cannot open its own documents from 2001. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] paste into the edit box

2014-04-22 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
John R. Sowden wrote: why can't I right click on paste to paste text into the edit box instead of having to go to the edit--paste drop down menu? I assume you're referring to the input line (where you can type formulas etc.) in Calc? Being another one who avoids the mouse whenever possible,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread anne-ology
not true; I can open anything with LO which was created initially with OO; yet MSFT has come up with a new version nearly every year - almost incompatible with the previous version; if I use MSFT Office 2003 to make a document those with these latest

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 22/04/2014 20:06, Urmas wrote: For the last 23 years Microsoft Office has changed its format TWICE. Meanwhile, Libreoffice cannot open its own documents from 2001. Microsoft has slightly changed the file format for each new release, although it has never changed the extension. Are you paid

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread James Knott
Urmas wrote: Meanwhile, Libreoffice cannot open its own documents from 2001. Yeah, that really a problem, especially since LO didn't exist back then. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread pete nikolic
On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 01:06:14 +0700 Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: anne-ology MSFT has been/is making their system(s) incompatible with others in order to reap a higher profit-margin ;-( For the last 23 years Microsoft Office has changed its format TWICE. Meanwhile, Libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread pete nikolic
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:03:50 -0400 James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote: Urmas wrote: Meanwhile, Libreoffice cannot open its own documents from 2001. Yeah, that really a problem, especially since LO didn't exist back then. +1 Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.14.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread anne-ology
I do NOT appreciate being mis-quoted; I was responding to that Urmas who made the inane MSFT comments. If you were to read the whole bit, ... ... ... but I guess that goes against common sense :-( Out of the 2 sentences below, the first is part of my

Re: [libreoffice-users] paste into the edit box

2014-04-22 Thread John R. Sowden
On 04/22/2014 11:39 AM, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: John R. Sowden wrote: why can't I right click on paste to paste text into the edit box instead of having to go to the edit--paste drop down menu? I assume you're referring to the input line (where you can type formulas

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Fwd: Why new page style after manual page break changes all pages?

2014-04-22 Thread Dale Erwin
On 4/22/2014 7:35 AM, Nino Novak wrote: On 21.04.2014 22:30, Dale Erwin wrote: [...] I have never had this problem and have never had the need to create sections. Maybe it's because I always use page styles alternating from right page to left page and back. For instance, I begin a book with

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread Tim Lloyd
Sort of getting off topic here :) My understanding is that Herman has a template created for MS Word. He wants to use this template in LO and therefore needs to convert it into the format LO uses. It was designed for Office 97 to 2000 and only works on certain computers with Office

[libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread Urmas
James Knott: Yeah, that really a problem, especially since LO didn't exist back then. It was called StarOffice back then. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Manuals in ePub format?

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I thought people here might be interested in how the ePub guides are going. Comments are probably best sent to the Documentation Team at this stage. Private comments seem to have worked well previously but the guides have moved on a bit now. Regards from Tom :) On 22 April 2014 20:30,

Re: [libreoffice-users] paste into the edit box

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Nicely done! Good to see it is a bump and that it's likely to get fixed one day even if not soon. Regards from Tom :) On 23 April 2014 00:19, John R. Sowden jsow...@americansentry.net wrote: On 04/22/2014 11:39 AM, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: John R. Sowden wrote:

[libreoffice-users] Found a solution

2014-04-22 Thread Ulana Decyk
Good evening, I am not sure that I have the correct email address for this issue. I see many people looking to transfer the normal.dot from Windows Microsoft Word, or normal.dotm from Word for Mac. By accident I found a way to do this and would like to pass this information along. I hope

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Not quite. It may have changed the name of the formats it uses twice but OOXML (the .docX etc) has at least 4 different versions including 3 different transitional versions and all are apparently quite different from the version they managed to get accredited as an ISO format. The older

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes, to both the last 2 questions. I'm fairly sure you can just double-click on a .dot to open it in LibreOffice and then File - Save as Template However it is likely to be a good idea to start afresh and create a new template using .ott from the start. MS formats tend to be riddled with

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think we have all experienced that sort of thing. This mailing list is meant for sharing ideas and building up answers. it's not made to be precise about who came up with posts. The thing was certainly said but it's difficult to know who said it except for 2 facts; 1. we know what you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hey, Easy tigers! Remember this is meant to be a family-friendly environment! Not that i've ever met a friendly family and kids these days seem to know more about swearing than the adults but lets pretend they don't know 'em and just avoid teaching them any new ones! Regards from Tom ;) On 22

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Nice answer! :))) I think top-marks to James. My answer was too ponderous and boring. Of course i think Star Office and maybe even OpenOffice were around back then so in a way LibreOffice was, but just not under the same name. (kinda the opposite of MS formats as it happens!) Regards

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It should be possible to just double-click on the Normal.doc to open it. However, it is probably full of junk by now = such as tons of extraneous coding and odd references to stuff that is long gone and maybe your address and other people's names and systems that the template has been used