Re: [libreoffice-users] background images in business cards

2016-12-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/12/16 06:46 PM, Don Myers wrote: Hi Peter, In the download section at World Label, there are templates for OpenOffice/LibreOffice. These are table style templates, and they work beautifully. Yes but the fact that you can get around a bug doesn't mean the bug doesn't exist. :) -- To uns

Re: [libreoffice-users] background images in business cards

2016-12-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/12/16 06:25 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 21/12/16 22:56, Gary Dale wrote: This is ridiculous. I've just been reading a question from a 2008 (3.2) version of OpenOffice.org that is the same as my current problem. Namely that you can't place images in the background on a business card.

Re: [libreoffice-users] background images in business cards

2016-12-21 Thread Don Myers
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Re: [libreoffice-users] background images in business cards

2016-12-21 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 21/12/16 22:56, Gary Dale wrote: > This is ridiculous. I've just been reading a question from a 2008 (3.2) > version of OpenOffice.org that is the same as my current problem. Namely > that you can't place images in the background on a business card. > > I'm using LibreOffice 5.2 (Debian) and wh

[libreoffice-users] Re: Another LO anti-feature

2016-12-21 Thread V Stuart Foote
For 5.2.4 search/replace will not show more that 1000 results to resolve tdf#92160 =-ref-= https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-5-2&id=1a093a2c06c30c17e483614e36a75907e7d0991f https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ba68e6dd7ad99ef2a2720f327813d135

[libreoffice-users] background images in business cards

2016-12-21 Thread Gary Dale
This is ridiculous. I've just been reading a question from a 2008 (3.2) version of OpenOffice.org that is the same as my current problem. Namely that you can't place images in the background on a business card. I'm using LibreOffice 5.2 (Debian) and when I insert an image, it refuses to go beh

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mode Default for Insert Media Into Writer

2016-12-21 Thread Joe Conner
Thanks for the suggestion. I will delve into it, and publish any finding. Merry Christmas. Blessings, Joe On 12/21/2016 01:46 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Joe Conner wrote: Using insert-> image-> scan-> select source-> scan mode-> mode the default is lineart. How do I chang

Re: [libreoffice-users] Clean old things from Excel

2016-12-21 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Doug McNutt wrote: I have managed to move my finance workbook from a CY 2001 version of Excel to libre-office-calc. I had a lot to learn and I'm still frustrated when I want to insert a few lines of entries from the bank. It's a pain having to do a separate entry of the number of lines and then

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with extra space at bottom of pages.

2016-12-21 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Do a lot of the paragraphs have "Keep with next paragraph" selected in the "Text Flow" tab? I've seen that do strange things before where paragraphs tend to stay on the last page they were forced onto, because LibreOffice is trying to keep more paragraphs together than actually fit on a page.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mode Default for Insert Media Into Writer

2016-12-21 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Joe Conner wrote: Using insert-> image-> scan-> select source-> scan mode-> mode the default is lineart. How do I change the default to gray or color? Selecting color or gray works for one cycle only. There is no "Save" button. I am using LibreOffice 5.2.3.3 on Ubuntu 16.10 64 bit. I'm using Li

Re: [libreoffice-users] Another LO anti-feature

2016-12-21 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Andreas, Andreas Säger wrote on 21-12-16 21:21: > How can I disable the silly dialog that pops up after every search&replace on > a Calc sheet? You're not the first one with this idea. See: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83614 I've marked this to be evaluated, possibl

[libreoffice-users] Another LO anti-feature

2016-12-21 Thread Andreas Säger
How can I disable the silly dialog that pops up after every search&replace on a Calc sheet? After correcting a column of 250,000 numbers it tries to write 250,000 cell addresses into a list box which takes by a magnitude more time than the replacement process. If such feature is really, really des