Re: [libreoffice-users] Em-dash

2024-07-30 Thread Ian Bertram
I see what you mean. I probably didn't look closely enough at your examples. Rightly or wrongly however, I always have the en-dash with spaces fore and aft, and never use the em-dash. To be honest, until relatively recently I just used a hyphen anyway. I suppose that comes from having used a typ

Re: [libreoffice-users] Em-dash

2024-07-30 Thread Ian Bertram
En- dash/em-dash All I need to do is type either double hyphen or triple hyphen to get the appropriate dash. No need for colons etc. I have never changed any autocorrect settings to achieve this. It is triggered by the second space, whether immediately after the hyphen or after the next word.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer, how to replace Manual Page Breaks (CNTRL-ENTER) with a printable character string.

2024-03-26 Thread Ian Bertram
I use the alternative find and replace add-on and can recommend it. On Tue, 26 Mar 2024, 13:15 W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof., < robert.funn...@mcgill.ca> wrote: > Honorato - > > I missed seeing your message. I think you can do what you want using the > Alternative Find & Replace extension ( > https

Re: [libreoffice-users] Labels created in Writer shifts downward while printed

2024-03-25 Thread Ian Bertram
I've had similar issues with user defined labels. Make sure to check the spacing between labels is correctly set. If it is fractionally out, you will get this sort of cumulative increase in misalignment. On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, 22:27 Paul D. Mirowsky, wrote: > A shat in the dark... > > * A blank

Re: [libreoffice-users] paragraph style

2024-03-06 Thread Ian Bertram
I have had a similar issue with styles I have defined. It's been happening irregularly for a few years, but I have never found any pattern or trigger for this behaviour. On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, 10:40 Robert Großkopf, wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > > > Why is it, that a certain style produces two different

Re: [libreoffice-users] Single file taking 15+ minutes to load/save, and getting larger every time without changes

2023-04-29 Thread Ian Bertram
I think I've had similar problems in the past, which I have put down to corruption of the file. I think I saved as a txt file and then back to odt. Obviously that means reapplying all the styles in use, which may be an issue with complex documents. On Sat, 29 Apr 2023, 18:56 Eyal Rozenberg, wrote

Re: [libreoffice-users] For the attention of mediators

2022-07-27 Thread Ian Bertram
If the 'propaganda' was in the body of a message I would see your point. It isn't though, it's in the signature. Unless there is a list rule I'm unaware of, I don't see any breach of convention. On Wed, 27 Jul 2022, 13:21 Séamas Ó Brógáin, wrote: > Can something be done about the political propa

RE: [libreoffice-users] Badly formatted document

2022-07-05 Thread Ian Bertram
tables were particularly affected throwing out text positioning also and I had to go through all my manuals and change my image anchoring to "as character". On 05/07/2022 04:59, Ian Bertram wrote: > I have been sent a graphic heavy document in ODT format. However it looks as

[libreoffice-users] Badly formatted document

2022-07-04 Thread Ian Bertram
I have been sent a graphic heavy document in ODT format. However it looks as if it has been badly converted from a pdf file. The layout is scrambled, headers don’t align properly and there are a host of other issues. It is also in columns. Is there a simple way to strip out everything bar the w

[libreoffice-users] Starting page numbering in a document on the second page

2022-06-25 Thread Ian Bertram
I have a long document (156 pages) plus a cover page. I want the cover page to be unnumbered and the numbering to start with the second page of the document. I’ve tried using page styles and got the second page to show as 1, but the header also appeared on the cover page and also as Page 1. R

RE: [libreoffice-users] changing currency in a spreadsheet

2022-04-25 Thread Ian Bertram
How are the cells displaying the $ sign formatted? I’m guessing they use the currency format. There’s probably a way to automatically select currency cells and change the currency, but that’s outside my expertise. Failing that you could simply edit the $ settings to use the £ symbol in the corr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Extracting content out of table format received in an email

2022-02-23 Thread Ian Bertram
Try Converting the table to text. It usually works for me. On Wed, 23 Feb 2022, 02:15 charles meyer, wrote: > Do you ever receive emails of mini-newsletters where you want to save some > of the content in the email but if you copy/paste it into Libre Writer it’s > all in a table? > > > > Looks g

[libreoffice-users] Keeping track of word counts

2021-10-12 Thread Ian Bertram
I usually have several writing projects on the go and need to keep track of progress. At the moment I have a simple spreadsheet that I update from time to time with wordcounts from the documents I’m working on. It occurs to me however that somewhere in Writer there must be a function that calcu

RE: [libreoffice-users] Images silently disappears from write document

2021-01-11 Thread Ian Bertram
I have a feeling that I have seen similar behaviour, but where many of the images are inserted as hyperlinks. It is a document of my wife’s not mine so I only see it indirectly. She suspects it occurs if the document is closed down too quickly, ie before all the images have time to load. They u

RE: [libreoffice-users] Static vs. dynamic time

2020-10-03 Thread Ian Bertram
Beyond my limited skills but presumably it is possible to run a macro from a spread sheet formula. Assuming that to be true then in col B you want something that in process terms works  like “if col A is not blank then run macro ‘InsertFixedDate’ “ which would be triggered when you enter data o

Re: [libreoffice-users] Does LO normally appear in Windows 10 start menu?

2020-09-20 Thread Ian Bertram
Right click on the icon on the desk top and select Pin to Start or Pin to Taskbar, whichever suits you best. On Sun, 20 Sep 2020, 17:36 Philip Jackson, wrote: > On 20/09/2020 17:52, Philip Jackson wrote: > > On 20/09/2020 10:09, Philip Jackson wrote: > >> I do have the feeling that originally Li