[libreoffice-users] Re: Making Libre Office my default for Word & Excel documents

2020-02-27 Thread Alwyn
Thanks for that although the route must have changed with Catalina. I used Finder/Help/entered default, and was directed to 'Choose an app to open a file on Mac'. Under "Permanently change the app used to open a file" process is: 1. On your Mac, click the Finder icon in the Dock to open a

[libreoffice-users] Making Libre Office my default for Word & Excel documents

2020-02-13 Thread Alwyn
I use an iMac on which Open Office is currently the default application. I want to change Libre Office to the default whilst keeping Open Office as an application. Is that possible? -- Sent from: http://document-foundation-mail-archive.969070.n3.nabble.com/Users-f1639498.html -- To

[libreoffice-users] Re: Trial of LibreOffice

2016-09-30 Thread Alwyn
Thanks Tom, That's most helpful and I note that it also includes the tabs for Mac Users. It occurs to me that it is probably possible to set up a particular style for a paragraph; this might be possible with a macro for example. I will explore these instructions. My wife is still using Open

[libreoffice-users] Re: Trial of LibreOffice

2016-09-30 Thread Alwyn
Thanks. I have downloaded both the latest version of Libre Office and the language pack. I think that the set up for Macs must be different as those options aren't in Tools. A search in Help showed them in LibreOffice/Preferences/Languages etc. I seem now to have succeeded in changing

[libreoffice-users] Trial of LibreOffice

2016-09-29 Thread Alwyn
I am still trialling LO but have one or two issues. 1. With Open Office I always updated using the British version so that dates, spelling etc automatically adopt the British format. It is proving tedious to have to convert all my spreadsheet date formats so I wonder if there is a similar

[libreoffice-users] Re: Loading libre office on my iPad

2016-08-10 Thread Alwyn
I'm a new LibreOffice User but have used Open Office for some time. I have the free Excel & Word apps on my iPad, both of which will work with files saved in either Word or Excel format. I am still exploring LibreOffice but, apart from the fact that I am having to convert all my dates to UK