[libreoffice-users] double brackets

2015-12-13 Thread Thomas
Good evening I have a 20,000 row file I am supposed to "review" (a translation by someone else) While changing things, I made a mistake and now one particular word appears as ((word)) Naturally, the double brackets are NOT wanted. When I try to search and replace them, Calc tell me, there ar

Re: [libreoffice-users] double brackets

2015-12-13 Thread Brian Barker
At 20:40 13/12/2015 +0900, Thomas Noname wrote: I have a 20,000 row file I am supposed to "review" (a translation by someone else) While changing things, I made a mistake and now one particular word appears as ((word)) Naturally, the double brackets are NOT wanted. When I try to search and repl

Re: [libreoffice-users] double brackets

2015-12-13 Thread Piet van Oostrum
Thomas wrote: > Good evening > I have a 20,000 row file I am supposed to "review" (a translation by > someone else) > > While changing things, I made a mistake and now one particular word > appears as > ((word)) > > Naturally, the double brackets are NOT wanted. > When I try to searc

Re: [libreoffice-users] double brackets

2015-12-13 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
On 2015/12/13 21:26, Brian Barker wrote: In the Find & Replace dialogue, click More Options. You probably have "Regular expressions" ticked. Untick it and try again. I DID try that in my office, but had no success. Now back home that worked. Thank you. The "same" applies to searching for ","

[libreoffice-users] Re: [bug 2/3] on both print preview and native pdf export, cell background slightly misaligned

2015-12-13 Thread Carlo Strata
Thank you very much Brian! I saw you have used AOO 4.1.1 (from pdf properties), but I suppose it's the same on the (definitively?) last 4.1.2. In any case I will open a bug with your files attached too, classifying it "Inherited From OOo", and I will post back here the associated number and li

Re: [libreoffice-users] double brackets

2015-12-13 Thread Brian Barker
At 02:16 14/12/2015 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: Setting the language under "Format cells" -> "numbers" to German now switches SOME (but not all) numbers like "50,000" to "50.000" (Some) Numbers appearing on the screen as "5" do not change at all. The latter one being the German localiz

Re: [libreoffice-users] Use KAddressBook As LibreOffice Resource

2015-12-13 Thread Mark Stanton
Hi Don, > I want to use KAddressBook as the resource for my LibreOffice mailmerge. > Unfortunately, the only way this seems possible is by exporting the > contacts from KAddressBook to a CSV file. That sucks. It *should* be quite easy since Kontact uses Akonadi which uses MySQL, so you should be

Re: [libreoffice-users] double brackets

2015-12-13 Thread James E. Lang
Thomas, Unfortunately I no longer have your original post so I'm using quotes of it from Brian Barker's response. My first advice is to create a test copy of the spreadsheet file by saving it as a differently named file. I construct such a file name by adding something like test- or trial- t

[libreoffice-users] Envelopes print in wrong orientation

2015-12-13 Thread wdrago
All, I'm try to print 6x8 envelopes. The text prints perpendicular to the long edge instead of paralleled to it no matter what format I select in the Insert Envelope wizard. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'm pulling my hair out with this. Thanks,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Envelopes print in wrong orientation

2015-12-13 Thread Alan B
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 7:17 PM, wrote: > I'm try to print 6x8 envelopes. The text prints perpendicular > to the > long edge instead of paralleled to it no matter what format I select in > the Insert Envelope wizard. I can't figure out what I'm doing > wrong. > What version of LO, what op

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Re: [libreoffice-users] double brackets

2015-12-13 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
On 2015/12/14 3:27, Brian Barker wrote: At 02:16 14/12/2015 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: Values that *appear* as the examples above may be stored as numbers or as text. It is worth considering carefully what your data should be. Many data items that look like numbers are in fact text strin