[libreoffice-users] Parts of document set to read-only by Writer: how to disable (normal methods not working)?

2014-08-23 Thread Vincent Rubiolo
Dear LibreOffice users, I am running LO 4.2.6.2 on Fedora 20 (4.2.6.2-1.fc20) and I am updating Writer a document originally coming from OpenOffice. It is a one page list of errands, with contents in 2 tables. I can edit part of the document correctly (one table) but the other is uneditable

Re: [libreoffice-users] Rotating Text

2014-08-23 Thread Pikov Andropov
I blush! My age is showing!!! And my new meds. I'll go look for that. Thanks. Brian Barker wrote on 8/23/2014 1:12 AM: > At 17:10 22/08/2014 -0400, Pikov Andropov wrote: >>A friend was having trouble with this in WPS Office and asked if >>LibreOffice could do better. He's printing some bridge ta

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice on the Big Screen

2014-08-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) We used to, at least for mainstream press articles, but it started to get ridiculously swamped. It's just soo much easier to google it (or duck-duck-go-it or whatever) otherwise the information is outdated faster than people can copy&paste. However a new initiative does report on some of th

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice on the Big Screen

2014-08-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, i thought you were talking about something different. I just noticed that "Which" recommends LibreOffice and doesn't even mention other alternatives. So i got a bit muddled in my excitement. Anyway, scratch my negativity! = I think it would be fantastic to add such mentions to the LO

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice on the Big Screen

2014-08-23 Thread jonathon
On 8/23/2014 4:20 AM, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > I thought these appearances of products tend to be paid for my the companies > pushing their products. Whilst product placement is fairly common, there are instances where either the director, or executive producer does not want to

[libreoffice-users] Re: Link to external data question

2014-08-23 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 08/22/2014 11:05 AM, Mark Bourne wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: On 08/21/2014 03:16 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: I would like to import some stock quotes from finance.yahoo.com into a calc sheet. As a test I select cell A1 Insert-->Link to External Data and I get the External Data di

[libreoffice-users] Re: Link to external data question

2014-08-23 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 08/22/2014 05:00 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Changing the file-ending doesn't change the format of the data itself within the file. I tried editing the url address to replace csv with ods and a file did get downloaded but it wasn't really an ods - just some sort of text file which Calc correc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing Checks

2014-08-23 Thread Rob Jasper
Well, this is argument covering English versus new world English (which I prefer to call American). The spelling checkers do make a difference between English, US English, Australian English, South African English, etc. for good reasons. No reasons to argue about that. Those languages are differ

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice on the Big Screen

2014-08-23 Thread Sophie
Hi Jonathon, Le 23/08/2014 02:54, jonathon a écrit : > All: > > Apache Open Office has > https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/with_special_guest_star_apache which > lists some appearances of Apache Open Office on TV and movies. > > Questions: > * Is/has anybody tracked instances of LibreOffice in m

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice on the Big Screen

2014-08-23 Thread Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 08/22/2014 08:54 PM, jonathon wrote: All: Apache Open Office has https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/with_special_guest_star_apache which lists some appearances of Apache Open Office on TV and movies. Questions: * Is/has anybody tracked instances of LibreOffice in movies or TV? * If so, where