[libreoffice-users] impress and video glitch (repost)

2014-12-20 Thread Mike Scott
[resent as I used wrong sending email address - apologies if it appears twice] Hi; somewhat pressing problem here; would be grateful for any help. I'm trying to put a video into an Impress presentation. It all works, /except/ for a (single?) wrong frame at start and end making a nasty flicke

[libreoffice-users] impress and video glitch

2014-12-20 Thread Mike Scott
Hi; somewhat pressing problem here; would be grateful for any help. I'm trying to put a video into an Impress presentation. It all works, /except/ for a (single?) wrong frame at start and end making a nasty flicker. On embedding a video, a frame is picked from somewhere in the video (not the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre office has been put on my computer by gleek squad and i am not sure how to use it.

2014-12-20 Thread James Knott
On 12/19/2014 06:05 PM, visajo.lj wrote: > I need assistance with the word documents. > > > What sort of assistance? -- 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: h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre office has been put on my computer by gleek squad and i am not sure how to use it.

2014-12-20 Thread James Knott
Have you used Word? Using any word processor is similar. To create a new document in Writer, you just open Writer and type. Then click on File>Save as to save it. If you want to save as a Word document, make sure the appropriate file type is selected. On 12/20/2014 07:54 AM, Lavisa Jones wrote

[libreoffice-users] Calc on a Form

2014-12-20 Thread Dave Asaibene
I have created a Spread sheet and have cells with results. Mostly the number of days between dates. I have been able to create a Table with this data and then a Form in database. What I am trying to do is have the number of days between two dates on the Form. First not sure what pulldown for the

[libreoffice-users] Search key working intermittently for values

2014-12-20 Thread WEDLOCO
Hi there I recently downloaded Libre Office to replace Open Office on my Mac. All previously created documents now open with Libre Office - obviously. I am having problem with the Search Key Function in my spreadsheets. I am using it to find amounts. It seems to work 2 or 3 times then suddenly

Re: [libreoffice-users] Product support question please!

2014-12-20 Thread Mark Bourne
dpregan54 wrote: PLEASE NOTE = Please forward this email to the people who handle product support questions for LibreOffice Writer. Dear Sir or Ms., I have been a very please long time user of your various products especially your writer product but now I have a question which I can not find

Re: [libreoffice-users] Search key working intermittently for values

2014-12-20 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
WEDLOCO wrote: Hi there I recently downloaded Libre Office to replace Open Office on my Mac. All previously created documents now open with Libre Office - obviously. I am having problem with the Search Key Function in my spreadsheets. I am using it to find amounts. It seems to work 2 or 3 tim

Re: [libreoffice-users] impress and video glitch (repost)

2014-12-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There is an guide for Impress; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications But i don't know the answer myself. I've not seen that particular question before. Usually people get stuck with trying to get any video embedding to work at all so i'm impressed with how far you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Search key working intermittently for values

2014-12-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You might find it better to install the "Still" branch rather than either of the "Fresh" branches. 4.x.8 ideally. Regards from Tom :) On 20 December 2014 at 14:11, WEDLOCO wrote: > Hi there > > I recently downloaded Libre Office to replace Open Office on my Mac. > > All previously creat

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc on a Form

2014-12-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Base documentation is on; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Base_Handbook and the Faq is also complete for Base https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq Hopefully someone here can give a better answer than rtfm tho! I'm not even sure the documentation

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre office has been put on my computer by gleek squad and i am not sure how to use it.

2014-12-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There are also video tutorials at: http://spoken-tutorial.org/ and an FAQ at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq However if you do have a specific issue then please do let us know what the specific question is! One of the problems with Microsoft Office is that each different version h

[libreoffice-users] Double sided printing-again

2014-12-20 Thread tony mollica
Hello. I've looked but haven't been able to find the right combination of commands to enable double sided printing and keep the configuration. Has there been any movement in the repair of this feature or are we still stuck with converting our documents to another format (.pdf) for proper handl

Re: [libreoffice-users] Search key working intermittently for values

2014-12-20 Thread WEDLOCO
Thanks Tom for your quick response and suggestion - and also all others who have contributed. Downloaded the Still version 4.2.8 but same thing is happening. Worked 1st time I entered a value in find and then when I changed the amount "Search key not found". I entered different amounts from dif

Re: [libreoffice-users] Search key working intermittently for values

2014-12-20 Thread Mark Bourne
WEDLOCO wrote: Thanks Tom for your quick response and suggestion - and also all others who have contributed. Downloaded the Still version 4.2.8 but same thing is happening. Worked 1st time I entered a value in find and then when I changed the amount "Search key not found". I entered different

Re: [libreoffice-users] Search key working intermittently for values

2014-12-20 Thread WEDLOCO
Hi Mark What I’m entering in Find is the full amount/value. The amount of 1234.12 is just to show the format I am using Kind regards, Evie. e...@wedloco.co.uk www.wedloco.co.uk DIY Invitations & Stationery 0131 478 9175 On 20 Dec 2014, at 18:11, Mark Bourne wrote: > WEDLO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Search key working intermittently for values

2014-12-20 Thread Mark Bourne
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "the full amount/value"? Are you able to give an example of what you're entering in Find, and the values in some cells in your sheet which you'd expect that to find? A more concrete example showing what I was trying to describe... If you have a sheet

Re: [libreoffice-users] Search key working intermittently for values

2014-12-20 Thread WEDLOCO
Ah Mark - you have solved it! I was looking for an amount of 13.50 and entered 13.50 (which I thought was logical) - search not found. Now I have tried entering 13.5 and it finds it! Must remember not to add the 0. "If you search for "9876.50", it DOES NOT find anything - which is probably not

[libreoffice-users] Calc macros - methods for hiding and showing columns

2014-12-20 Thread david_lynch
I have written a macro that, among other things, hides and shows columns. I have eventually got it to work: the .uno:ShowColumn seems only to work if the range includes columns that are showing. Are there methods for hiding and showing columns? I can't find them in Andrew's book (or elsewhere

[libreoffice-users] problems downloading and donating

2014-12-20 Thread Spencer Graves
I just had problems downloading the latest version of LiberOffice to a Windows 7 machine and donating to The Document Foundation. DOWNLOAD PROBLEMS: I was unable to get a download to work using Internet Explorer 11.0. I went to libreoffice.org and clicked on “Download Now”, then “Downloa

Re: [libreoffice-users] impress and video glitch

2014-12-20 Thread anne-ology
Maybe - maybe not - I'm understanding your question ... (I'm still using LO 3.4) If you're referring to 'hiding' slides, then these slides should not produce any flash; the PP should merely skip right over these. Could you have inserted a slide which app

Re: [libreoffice-users] Product support question please!

2014-12-20 Thread anne-ology
Mark, I so agree with you; when music and/or talking starts the moment I open an e-mail or a website page, my first thought is very negative ... especially since most of the time the producer has set the volume to a deafening level. From: Mark Bourne Date: Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at