[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with opening document dialogue

2015-01-13 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 13.01.2015 um 22:09 schrieb Andreas Säger: > Am 13.01.2015 um 11:45 schrieb Tom Davies: >> Hi :) >> That link didn't work on the lock-down system i am currently working >> on. They block tons of sites here so i suspect it's that. On the >> other hand the Open Office forums had a few problems b

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with opening document dialogue

2015-01-13 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 13.01.2015 um 11:45 schrieb Tom Davies: > Hi :) > That link didn't work on the lock-down system i am currently working > on. They block tons of sites here so i suspect it's that. On the > other hand the Open Office forums had a few problems back when Oracle > owned their sites. > The link wo

[libreoffice-users] Re: Scaling x-axis on chart

2015-01-13 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 13.01.2015 um 13:00 schrieb Budgie: > Hi Tom, > Thanks for the reply. No joy so far. The problem is expanding the x > axis which is using dates. It is set up for date format but I cannot > find how to expand the scale. I have a screen shot which illustrates my > problem. I shall try and att

[libreoffice-users] Re: styles in text boxes

2015-01-13 Thread Urmas
"Mike Scott": I mentioned "irritations" in another post, so thought maybe I'll give one explicitly, as I've bumped into it (afresh) this week. Why are text styles not available to use within text boxes? Draw textboxes have a combination of graphic style, text style for the entire frame and i

[libreoffice-users] Installation failure

2015-01-13 Thread John Willerton
Installing 4.3.5 on Win XP SP3 comes up with error 1714 saying older version cannot be uninstalled. Have cleaned out registry and settings in MyDocuments etc and still no joy. What other files/ settings have I missed? A clean install on a Win 7 machine worked fine. Alternatively how do I force a f

Re: [libreoffice-users] styles in text boxes

2015-01-13 Thread Wiebe van der Worp
On 13-01-15 11:54, Mike Scott wrote: Why are text styles not available to use within text boxes? ... However, I'd like to use styles to ensure consistency, and this appears simply impossible - only one style, the box style, is available (in Draw, but not Writer!) and that affects all text(*) wi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Scaling x-axis on chart

2015-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Attachments get taken off the emails. You can use Nabble though. You can upload files to a file-sharing cloud type thing and then give us a link to the file. If you go to the main LibreOffice website and through the "Get Help" section find Nabble. When you upload a file it injects the lin

Re: [libreoffice-users] What is the current best ODF editing Android Package?

2015-01-13 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
If you can run Ubuntu on it, here is something you might be interested in. X.Org Apps Now Running On Ubuntu Touch/Phone http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Touch-Phone-XMir-Apps On 1/13/2015 4:04 AM, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: Here is the thing, with my Noo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Scaling x-axis on chart

2015-01-13 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
I am assuming you are using Calc Have you tried expanding the table area vertically? Click outside the table and then click on the table once, then click on the tick mark on horizontal center and pull up or down. Does this change the number of entries? On 1/13/2015 7:00 AM, Budgie wrote:

Re: [libreoffice-users] OpenSource jobs

2015-01-13 Thread James Knott
On 01/13/2015 06:50 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > It's in England. That would be a bit of a commute from Canada. ;-) -- 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:/

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spurious derby.log file in $HOME created by LO

2015-01-13 Thread Malte Starostik
That's right :) In fact I'm already pretty happy that this extension is available for OO/LO and not only for MS Word as it used to be. Regards, Malte Am Dienstag, 13. Januar 2015, 10:53:10 schrieb Tom Davies: > Hi :) > +1 > That is a MUCH better approach! You can always start down that path > a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spurious derby.log file in $HOME created by LO

2015-01-13 Thread Malte Starostik
Well, it's the only way I know of to include a postage stamp directly in the document. The extension contacts the post service's web service to generate a dummy barcode with or without sender and recipient addresses for inclusion in the document. On print you can keep that dummy barcode or buy

[libreoffice-users] OpenSource jobs

2015-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I wouldn't normally do this but i just stumbled over a great looking job that i can't apply for and thought someone here might enjoy it; http://www.fish4.co.uk/job/3728395/open-source-devops-engineer-automation-cloud-iot/ I liked their line "This role has no function within corporate IT, so

Re: [libreoffice-users] Scaling x-axis on chart

2015-01-13 Thread Budgie
On 13/01/15 11:03, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Sorry no-one was able to help with this! :( Did you manage to figure it out? The official guides might be able to give you a better over-view and maybe some idea of whether you are doing something wrong or what is going on; https://wiki.documentfoundat

Re: [libreoffice-users] Scaling x-axis on chart

2015-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry no-one was able to help with this! :( Did you manage to figure it out? The official guides might be able to give you a better over-view and maybe some idea of whether you are doing something wrong or what is going on; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications The

Re: [libreoffice-users] File-Send-Document As doesn't!

2015-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ok, sounds like it migth be good to post that as a "feature request". With a bit of luck it might even be an "Easy Hack" and thus be helpful to someone just starting out under a mentor or something. Regards from Tom :) On 12 January 2015 at 21:46, Ian Whitfield wrote: > > I had to add the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spurious derby.log file in $HOME created by LO

2015-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 That is a MUCH better approach! You can always start down that path and then maybe uninstall it for a while until the dev has had a chance to look into it. Regards from Tom :) On 13 January 2015 at 10:34, Cley Faye wrote: > Or, maybe a less radical solution, you could notify the devel

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with opening document dialogue

2015-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That link didn't work on the lock-down system i am currently working on. They block tons of sites here so i suspect it's that. On the other hand the Open Office forums had a few problems back when Oracle owned their sites. For any sort of crashing problems it seems to be a good idea to try

[libreoffice-users] styles in text boxes

2015-01-13 Thread Mike Scott
I mentioned "irritations" in another post, so thought maybe I'll give one explicitly, as I've bumped into it (afresh) this week. Why are text styles not available to use within text boxes? I have a small project (I'm using Draw, but the problem also exists in Writer and presumably the other co

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spurious derby.log file in $HOME created by LO

2015-01-13 Thread Cley Faye
Or, maybe a less radical solution, you could notify the developer of this extension about this behavior. This issue might have gone completely unnoticed, seeing the mess some dev harbor in their home directory. It might be helpful for other users too. Of course if the dev answer something like "wo

Re: [libreoffice-users] What is the current best ODF editing Android Package?

2015-01-13 Thread Cley Faye
2015-01-13 10:04 GMT+01:00 Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster < webmas...@krackedpress.com>: > So any help with choosing the best ODF editing package, would be nice. ​I'm affraid the situation on the Android front is moving slowly. Really slowly. And AndrOpen Office​ is your best (and almost only) so

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spurious derby.log file in $HOME created by LO

2015-01-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is it really worth keeping the Extenion/Add-on? I'd be really tempted to uninstall it and find some other way to do whatever it does. Regards from Tom :) On 13 January 2015 at 09:17, Malte Starostik wrote: > Hello Dries, > > thanks for the pointer. In fact German Post's online stamping e

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spurious derby.log file in $HOME created by LO

2015-01-13 Thread Malte Starostik
Hello Dries, thanks for the pointer. In fact German Post's online stamping extension is causing it. Not being a Java guy I'll now have to try and distill the below link (that I found before but didn't see how to make use of it) into some way to set the log file path for that extension - if th

[libreoffice-users] What is the current best ODF editing Android Package?

2015-01-13 Thread Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster
Here is the thing, with my Nook tablet, I could not get any ODF editing package - i.e. Android AOO and such - since it seemed to need an external keyboard and a faster processor. Now the Nook is giving me "troubles" that tells me it may "die" soon. SO I ordered a new tablet, one that I coul

[libreoffice-users] New twitter account for user support

2015-01-13 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello and happy new year everyone, As mentioned here a few weeks ago, we now have an operational twitter account for users support: https://twitter.com/libreofficehelp As such this will provide assistance to users who asks us questions via Twitter and it is community run. Volunteers interested in

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with opening document dialogue

2015-01-13 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 13.01.2015 um 08:47 schrieb Angus Wood: > On opening Libre Office via the dock icon, a dialogue box comes up telling me > that the program previously unexpectedly quit while opening a document. The > action button “reopen” is pre-selected (by blue shading) Both buttons do > nothing and the di

Re: [libreoffice-users] File-Send-Document As doesn't!

2015-01-13 Thread Mike Scott
On 12/01/15 19:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 12/01/15 17:09, Mike Scott wrote: 4.2.7 on Mint 17 here; failed miserably until I went to Tools|Options and under Internet explicitly set /usr/bin/thunderbird as the email client. Worth a whirl? That works! But the user shouldn't have to do