[libreoffice-users] Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium - Libreoffice 4.1.1.2 General Error. General input/output error

2013-09-27 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Recently in trying to open some previously created documents, I now get a *General Error.* *General input/output error *in Libreoffice 4.1.1.2. However, if I attempt to open my .doc files using a copy of Libreoffice 3.4.6 - my files open up okay - no error messages. I tried re-installing 4.1.1.2

[libreoffice-users] Suggestions

2013-08-26 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Where/who can you email a Libreoffice suggestion for improvement? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List

Re: [libreoffice-users] Spell check problem on LO 3.5.4.2

2012-06-07 Thread Jonathon Waterman
You may also want to consider installing the After The Deadline extension. It does well with both spelling and grammar checking. On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:40 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 06/07/2012 09:17 AM, Ryno Labuschagne wrote: Hi, I have a bit of a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: install of 3.5.4 over 3.4.6 removed all my extensions

2012-06-03 Thread Jonathon Waterman
webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: What I hated was the status text seemed to tell me that the profile [all of it] was being transfered over. I thought that part of your profile was the extensions you added. I know if I delete the .libreoffice file in Ubuntu you loose

Fwd: ooops Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.2 corrupting .doc files

2012-04-11 Thread Jonathon Waterman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:59 PM Subject: Re: ooops Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.2 corrupting .doc files To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Thanks for the response, Tom. I was able to find

Re: Fwd: ooops Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.2 corrupting .doc files

2012-04-11 Thread Jonathon Waterman
from Tom :) --- On Wed, 11/4/12, Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.com Subject: Fwd: ooops Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.2 corrupting .doc files To: Libreoffice users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 11 April, 2012, 18

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.2 corrupting .doc files

2012-04-09 Thread Jonathon Waterman
I have a number of files that I use in both LO and MS Word 2007 on a Windows 7 64 bit Home system. While before now - there hasn't been a problem. However, as soon as I upgraded LO 3.5.1 - 3.5.2 - in every single existing .doc file I open in 3.5.2 - the top part of each line is cut off, and if I

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.2 corrupting .doc files

2012-04-09 Thread Jonathon Waterman
/Documentation/UserProfile I think just uninstall 3.5.2 and then reinstall 3.5.1. You can get previous releases from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?nodetect Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 9/4/12, Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.com

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.2 corrupting .doc files

2012-04-09 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Correction - the only versions of LO the site is offering for U.S. English - Windows is 3.5.2 and 3.4.6. I have not found an option for 3.5.1 On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for the suggestion,Tom. Changing user profiles did not help

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.1 Writer text boundary

2012-03-17 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Last night I downloaded and installed LO 3.5.1 and soon discovered that unlike 3.4.5 - in writer, there is no boundary line around the area where you type. There seems to be only an L shaped mark at each page corner. Is there a way to get the text boundary line back? -- For unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.1 Writer text boundary

2012-03-17 Thread Jonathon Waterman
You won't be the only one. Thanks for the quick reply Jean-Francois. On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker jean-francois.nifenec...@laposte.net wrote: Le 17/03/2012 21:50, Jonathon Waterman a écrit : Last night I downloaded and installed LO 3.5.1 and soon discovered

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.5.1 Writer text boundary

2012-03-17 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Thanks for sharing these procedures, Dan. I appreciate it. On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: Bottom post: On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 19:24 -0400, Jonathon Waterman wrote: You won't be the only one. Thanks for the quick reply Jean-Francois. On Sat, Mar

Re: [libreoffice-users] Extension MSOffice

2012-02-15 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Good advice, Tom. Unfortunately, I am having to uninstall 3.5 as we speak and locate the 3.4.5 installation files. It seems LO 3.5 has trouble even with some .odt files. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Hi :) Obviously if 3.5.x is producing some files

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.5 corrupts DOCX completely

2012-02-14 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Hmm. That's strange you are having this problem. I run Windows 7 Home 64 bit and just created a docx file in MS Word 2007 - then modified it in LO 3.5. Afterwords, I was able to open it in Word with no problems. Could this be a problem possible unique to MS Word 2010? On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unsubscribing from this list

2012-01-22 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Though I hate to recommend a competitor's services, and may take a little flack for doing so. For those who do have a individual question and want an answer and nothing more, perhaps they should consider asking their question at http://user.services.openoffice.org/ . The community forum does

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cleaning Windows

2012-01-14 Thread Jonathon Waterman
One of my favorites is CCleaner http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner JW On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Tom tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Is there a good tool for uninstalling programs in Windows? Preferably something that can declutter the registry. Just after the New Year before

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot get LibreOffice to install

2011-11-11 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Greetings. I thought I would let you know I am running L.O. 3.4.4. on Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 - 64 bit with no problems. Thus it can be done. Most likely the problem is being caused by some hardware or software setting on the computer. You may want to reboot Windows and bring it up in SAFE

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Dropped Caps - Sharing a .doc file created in LO 3.4.3 and MS Word 2007

2011-11-10 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Thanks for the suggestions,Tom. The file is definitely being saved in .doc format - and it uses Garamond 11 font in both MS Word and LO. I recently installed 3.4.4 - yet have not had time to see if the incompatibility problem still exists with this latest version. I've also noticed a graphics

Re: [libreoffice-users] Dropped Caps - Sharing a .doc file created in LO 3.4.3 and MS Word 2007

2011-11-10 Thread Jonathon Waterman
-online.dewrote: Hi Jonathon, Jonathon Waterman schrieb: I have a lengthy .doc file which uses Drop Caps that I created in LO 3.4.3 that I need to share between LO and MS Word. However, while everything looks good in L.O., the drop cap set for 1 character and 3 lines - when the .doc file is opened

Re: [libreoffice-users] Dropped Caps - Sharing a .doc file created in LO 3.4.3 and MS Word 2007

2011-11-10 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Thanks for the confirmation. On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Steve Edmonds steve.edmo...@ptglobal.comwrote: Confirmed in 3.4.4 Mac, you may have found a regression. steve On 11/11/11 8:19 AM, Jonathon Waterman wrote: Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately, this problem has escalated

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Dropped Caps - Sharing a .doc file created in LO 3.4.3 and MS Word 2007

2011-11-10 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Great. Unfortunately not only is it now working under Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium - if you uninstall 3.44 and reinstall 3.43 - you still have the problem. Needless to say, before now - Dropcaps did work properly within LO itself. Note: Deleting the LO directory under Program Files (396) and the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Dropped Caps - Sharing a .doc file created in LO 3.4.3 and MS Word 2007

2011-11-10 Thread Jonathon Waterman
! On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.comwrote: Great. Unfortunately not only is it now working under Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium - if you uninstall 3.44 and reinstall 3.43 - you still have the problem. Needless to say, before now - Dropcaps did work properly

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Dropped Caps - Sharing a .doc file created in LO 3.4.3 and MS Word 2007

2011-11-10 Thread Jonathon Waterman
. On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Pedro pedl...@gmail.com wrote: Jonathon Waterman wrote: In doing further testing - I have also discovered if you install OpenOffice 3.3.0 - the problem exists there, as well. Ironically, whatever is causing this does not affect MS Word 2007

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Dropped Caps - Sharing a .doc file created in LO 3.4.3 and MS Word 2007

2011-11-10 Thread Jonathon Waterman
In the process of trying resolve a different problem - I uninstalled L.O. - deleted the Libreoffice directory from Program files and removed the Libreoffice folder out of my app/data folder. Thus doing what your article references, and more. :-) This seems to have resolved the problem. Thanks

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Dropped Caps - Sharing a .doc file created in LO 3.4.3 and MS Word 2007

2011-11-10 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Thanks Tom On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Tom tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Official documentation is at both http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications and at http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ The wiki has links to other 3rd party

[libreoffice-users] Dropped Caps - Sharing a .doc file created in LO 3.4.3 and MS Word 2007

2011-11-06 Thread Jonathon Waterman
I have a lengthy .doc file which uses Drop Caps that I created in LO 3.4.3 that I need to share between LO and MS Word. However, while everything looks good in L.O., the drop cap set for 1 character and 3 lines - when the .doc file is opened in MS Word - there are two blank lines directly

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Document Recovery error message

2011-10-24 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Recently, ever type I exit out of LibreOffice 3.4.3 I get a box with the following error message. LibreOffice Document Recovery Due to an unexpected error, LibreOffice crashed. All the files you were working on will now be saved. The next time LibreOffice is lunched , you files with be recovered

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Document Recovery error message

2011-10-24 Thread Jonathon Waterman
, extensions and so on. This guide might help http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=12426 Good luck and regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 24/10/11, Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Document Recovery error message

2011-10-24 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 24/10/11, Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Document Recovery error message To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Monday, 24 October, 2011, 20:58

[libreoffice-users] LO Writer 3.4.3 resizing jpg files and automatically adding a border

2011-10-01 Thread Jonathon Waterman
I have a .doc file that I am editing using both MS Word 2007 and LO Writer 3.4.3. Why? - because LO does not handle Section breaks and a few other things the same way MS Word does. Anyhow My problem is, after doing what needs to be done in MS Word, and then saving the file and opening it

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice auto resizing jpg files and adding borders

2011-10-01 Thread Jonathon Waterman
I have a .doc file that I am editing using both MS Word 2007 and LO Writer 3.4.3. Why? - because LO does not handle Section breaks and a few other things the same way MS Word does. Anyhow My problem is, after doing what needs to be done in MS Word, and then saving the file and opening it

[libreoffice-users] LO Navigator and MS .doc files containing Section Breaks

2011-09-20 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Hi all, I need to review a .doc document that was created in MS Word 2007. This document contains both Page breaks and Section breaks. While I can get the Navigator in LO to GOTO the next page - how can I get it to GOTO where section breaks were used? I want to be able to jump from one section

Re: [libreoffice-users] comparison of LO and m$ bugs

2011-09-19 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Boy, you got that right - Tom. Recently I ran across a Drop Cap-related bug in their Word program and via their support forum discovered that is was a well known problem that was reported as a bug back in 2003. Apparently MS didn't deem it necessary to fix. Also, thank goodness I was able to work

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems while trying to reinstall LO 3.4.3

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathon Waterman
:) --- On Thu, 15/9/11, Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-users] Problems while trying to reinstall LO 3.4.3 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 15 September, 2011, 15:41 Operating system: Windows 7 64

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problems while trying to reinstall LO 3.4.3

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Message- From: Jonathon Waterman [mailto:peedyswo...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:42 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Problems while trying to reinstall LO 3.4.3 Operating system: Windows 7 64 bit Home edition Previously I had

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems while trying to reinstall LO 3.4.3

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathon Waterman
Actually, in my original message - and I do not know why that part no longer shows - I clearly state this is Windows 7 - 64 bit - Home edition. This problem originated way before OpenOffice was installed. - Openoffice was installed only as a temporary workaround. Thus closing OO and shutting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems while trying to reinstall LO 3.4.3

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathon Waterman
comes out.inorder to resolve the problem. :-) On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Am 15.09.2011 20:27, Jonathon Waterman wrote: Actually, in my original message - and I do not know why that part no longer shows - I clearly state this is Windows 7 - 64

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems while trying to reinstall LO 3.4.3

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathon Waterman
:41 AM, Jonathon Waterman wrote: Operating system: Windows 7 64 bit Home edition Previously I had LibreOffice 3.4.3 installed on my computer, but uninstalled it when I was not able to get the Synonyms in Write to work the way in did in version 3.4.2. I wanted to go back and re

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems while trying to reinstall LO 3.4.3

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathon Waterman
, Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jonathon Waterman peedyswo...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems while trying to reinstall LO 3.4.3 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 15 September, 2011, 21:20 You are correct. However, the Cleanup utility