Re: [libreoffice-users] Curious question about "Styles"

2015-03-30 Thread Barry Say
In 'Styles and Formatting' (F11), the top left "New Style" button has a Load Styles option. The next window has a "From File' option. Does that help? BArry On 30/03/15 17:30, Michael Tiernan wrote: I can create a document and thereby create a style for use in it. I can then, after saving i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Rendering images in Writer

2013-02-26 Thread Barry Say
reduced to one is a matter of choice and may require variation depending on the type of image we are dealing with. I think it is the anti-aliasing algorithm. Investigations are continuing. Thanks for replies to date. Any other thoughts? Barry On 25/02/13 21:42, Barry Say wrote: When images

[libreoffice-users] Rendering images in Writer

2013-02-25 Thread Barry Say
When images are displayed in Writer, fine lines seem to present a problem. I am particularly thinking of music where our stave lines are 1 pixel wide. This gives just the print quality required but the display in Libre-Office is very difficult to use. What seems to be happening is that the l

Re: [libreoffice-users] data order

2013-01-06 Thread Barry Say
between "Tools" and "Window") Data - Sort and then use the drop-downs to select which column you want to sort the data by. Regards from Tom :) ____ From: Barry Say To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Saturday, 5 January 2013, 15:55 Sub

Re: [libreoffice-users] data order

2013-01-05 Thread Barry Say
When I have adjacent columns in a calc table and do a sort on a given column, a dialogue box opens asking me whether I want to sort one column or many. Would this help you? Barry On 05/01/13 15:38, Paolo Debortoli wrote: hi. I am preparing a calc file with 2 sheets; one with the results of m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: A Tale of Two Office Suites

2012-12-12 Thread Barry Say
Try this folks: 1. Type ( 2. Type C 3. Type ) 4. Type space 5. Previous three characters become a copyright sign automatically 6. Type ctrl-z and step 5 is undone 7. Type ctrl-z and the space is deleted. This seems to be general behaviour throughout LO. Automatic changes are treated as a virtua

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ending a document

2012-11-22 Thread Barry Say
Thanks to all, I am listening but also racing a deadline. Brian Barker has hit the nail on the head. More later Barry On 11/22/2012 07:32 AM, Dan Lewis wrote: On 11/21/2012 06:07 AM, Barry Say wrote: -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems

[libreoffice-users] Ending a document

2012-11-21 Thread Barry Say
Hi all, Is it the case that a document **must* *end with a paragraph mark. I am editing a publication which is a master document and I would like to specify that for a given sub-document I wish to have nothing below it on the page but when I insert a page break I am given another page with a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Document 'corrupt' for LibreOffice, opens fine with other OOo-based software

2012-06-05 Thread Barry Say
Silly Question, Can you unpack the repaired file and rezip it. Does it open correctly? I have tried something similar to your process and what once worked stopped working. Barry Eric Brunel wrote: Thanks for the hints. Worked on that, but no luck so far: I removed the references to the no

Re: [libreoffice-users] Document 'corrupt' for LibreOffice, opens fine with other OOo-based software

2012-06-04 Thread Barry Say
Thanks to Dennis for his thoughts. They make sense to a newbie to this field ( with 40 years of intermittent programming experience) Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Corruption could indeed be triggered by there being an inconsistency between META-INF/manifest.xml and what is present in the package.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Document 'corrupt' for LibreOffice, opens fine with other OOo-based software

2012-06-04 Thread Barry Say
Eric Brunel wrote: So if anyone could have a look and tell us what we are doing wrong. Or even better, if there's a way to make LibreOffice tell us what's actually wrong in the document, that would be great. Hi Eric, I've followed most of the discussion to date and I have had similar exp

[libreoffice-users] Endnotes - no page break

2012-05-04 Thread Barry Say
Is it possible to avoid having endnotes on a separate page? Barry -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette