[libreoffice-users] Re: question: how can I make the scrollbars wider on LibreOffice?

2024-07-09 Thread Mike Flannigan
I don't know if there is a good answer to this question.  If you don't get an answer consider signing up to this forum: https://forums.linuxmint.com Mike On 7/6/24 19:04, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Hello, I just subscribed to this forum tonight so I could ask this question. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice suite

2024-06-01 Thread Mike Flannigan
I didn't know tablets were so handicapped. I guess I will stay away from those. Mike On 5/31/24 23:03, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: I use LibreOffice suite on my desktop pc and can find my way around it easily (sometimes I need to search your website for assistance). I have

[libreoffice-users] Frustration!

2024-04-05 Thread Mike Bertalot
to MS after all these years but, this is ridiculous!Any help would be appreciated. Mike bertalotdustysda...@yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more

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

2024-03-26 Thread Mike Flannigan
You did a good job of explaining your problem. Sorry we do not have an answer to your question. Mike On 3/20/24 09:09, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Subject: [libreoffice-users] Writer, how to replace Manual Page Breaks (CNTRL-ENTER) with a printable character string. From

[libreoffice-users] Re: putting text in 2 or 3 columns on a single page

2024-03-19 Thread Mike Flannigan
Setting individual tables that are left aligned, or center aligned, or right aligned may be a good option. Mike On 3/19/24 09:06, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: users_59192.eml Subject: [libreoffice-users] putting text in 2 or 3 columns on a single page From: Keith Jackson Date

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer form design grid

2024-02-20 Thread Mike Scott
On 16/02/2024 07:23, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Mike, Snap-to-grid doesn't seem to do a lot - but as the grid size isn't changeable, it would not be a whole lot of help. I'm creating very much forms for databases (also for other people). I'm using grid only. Helps me very much. Points

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer form design grid

2024-02-15 Thread Mike Scott
On 11/02/2024 18:25, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Mike, you could set something for the grid in Tools → Options → LibreOffice Writer → Grid Subdivisin will set more ore less grid points between the main points. You could set the color for the grid in Tools → Options → LibreOffice → Application

[libreoffice-users] Writer form design grid

2024-02-11 Thread Mike Scott
! Thanks. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https

Re: [libreoffice-users] pdf forms (OT?)

2024-02-09 Thread Mike Scott
On 09/02/2024 08:17, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Mike, It still leaves the question of how to extract the data from the completed form. Perhaps I've not hit the right keyword, but I've found /nothing/ on the net. Surely if there's a way of filling in a form, there's one of reading it!! I

Re: [libreoffice-users] pdf forms (OT?)

2024-02-08 Thread Mike Scott
On 08/02/2024 18:14, Fred James wrote: Mike Scott wrote: Hi all. I've just been looking at making pdf forms with Writer. Easier than I'd thought. I've been able to create a sample form with text fields and open this with xreader, evince or firefox. Firefox is able to display, edit and save

[libreoffice-users] pdf forms (OT?)

2024-02-08 Thread Mike Scott
be helpful, thanks. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive

Re: [libreoffice-users] Copy-Paste from PDF to Writer modifies document metadata

2023-11-20 Thread Mike Flannigan
I have not seen that happen, but if it does happen I think it has more to do with the way the PDF was created, than with the operation of Libreoffice Writer. Mike On 11/20/23 14:06, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Subject: [libreoffice-users] Copy-Paste from PDF to Writer modifies

Re: [libreoffice-users] Save and Edit Text document

2023-10-29 Thread Mike Flannigan
On 10/29/23 20:12, Kenneth Groninga wrote: When I scan a document how can I save if as a text rather tban an image? By using OCR to turn it into text.  Often the OCR is built-in to the scanning software. Mike -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Save and Edit Text document

2023-10-29 Thread Mike Flannigan
not edit it.  Why can I not edit these documents? That is not normal.  You should be able to edit it. So when you type something to edit it, does anything happen?  Can you get a blinking cursor? Kenneth Groninga On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 3:58 PM Mike Flannigan wrote: What you are doing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Save and Edit Text document

2023-10-29 Thread Mike Flannigan
What you are doing is not normal.  Why scan it?  Why not just open the text file in anything and edit it? If you want to go back and forth between text and image file, you can.  On Linux I use tesseract to do ocr. Mike On 10/26/23 10:05, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: How do I

Re: [libreoffice-users] font gone AWOL

2023-10-03 Thread Mike Scott
On 29/09/2023 09:43, Mike Scott wrote: Hi all. I'm sure I've missed something obvious here, but LO doesn't pick up a font that looks as though it's known to the system. This is on linux Mint 21, LO 7.3.7.2 from the repo. The font file is my own creation and of somewhat venerable antiquity (25

[libreoffice-users] font gone AWOL

2023-09-29 Thread Mike Scott
ied to use it for years, but I'm (almost!) sure it used to be available. Any thoughts please? Thanks. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-users] problems on Ubuntu

2023-09-02 Thread Mike Flannigan
e terminal? Then type this in the terminal and enter: libreoffice --calc Replace with the filename. Does calc open?  If so, close it.  Is there any response in the terminal? Mike On 9/2/23 15:08, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: This year, I switched to Ubuntu, and I am having

Re: (unresolved) Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-08-24 Thread Mike Scott
On 14/08/2023 12:11, Mike Scott wrote: On 12/08/2023 19:19, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi, you could file a bug and post the number here. 156765 . And there it has sat for 10 days, and remains unassigned and un-updated. Oh well. Nice idea though. What's the usual timescale for someone

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LibreOffice Calc 7.4.7 and hidden columns

2023-08-18 Thread Mike Flannigan
Hiding and unhiding columns or rows anywhere on the spreadsheet works fine with my Calc 6.4.7.2 on Linux Mint, even with "Freeze rows and columns" in effect.  So I would say you found a bug. Mike On 8/14/23 13:08, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Hi!  My dad just contacte

Re: (unresolved) Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-08-14 Thread Mike Scott
On 12/08/2023 19:19, Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi, you could file a bug and post the number here. 156765 (If I've steered through bugzilla correctly!) -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscr

(unresolved) Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-08-10 Thread Mike Scott
OK, I see this thread's died out, so I assume there's no-one with a magical cure. I guess I'll have to persuade my wife that LO's own dialogue's are the way to go, although I confess I dislike them myself intensely. It won't put me off LO :-} But thanks to all for commenting. -- Mike Scott

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-08-02 Thread Mike Scott
eem to pop up rather randomly, those comments may be mis-leading. (*) Pi4: surprisingly snappy in use! I've not tried it before. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsu

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-08-01 Thread Mike Scott
look like an LO issue; but how come lots of others aren't seeing the same, and how come it's so seemingly random? (Not that I'm changing which I use: sorry, but the LO dialogue boxes I find confusingly different.) -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-08-01 Thread Mike Scott
on is nothing to do with the ubuntu packaging. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-07-31 Thread Mike Scott
or an Ubuntu packaged version. Mike, you say both machines are Mint, MATE or Xfce? Did you install from a PPA or the LO website. Mint Mate; versions 21 and (iirc) 20.2 on the lappy. LO is installed from the relevant ubuntu PPA. This machine (mint 21) says (synaptic) 1:7.3.7-0ubuntu0.22.0.4.3, but I

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-07-29 Thread Mike Scott
On 25/07/2023 21:17, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 25/07/2023 22:17, Mike Scott wrote: On 24/07/2023 17:39, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: Just out of curiosity, at any time did you receive a "Confirm File Format" window and unchecked the "Ask when not saving in ODF or default format"

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-07-25 Thread Mike Scott
ng today is that on this machine at least, I can't provoke the erroneous behaviour... I must have just clicked "Save As" 30 or more times, and all works perfectly. Would fail regularly when I last posted. The machine has just been rebooted though... surely that can't affect things! T

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-07-24 Thread Mike Scott
uot; is the style, she has to manually change the odt to docx, which should not be necessary. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reading a crash report

2023-07-22 Thread Mike Flannigan
I don't know if cygwin is needed to print Avery labels, but I can tell you that you can install cygwin on your computer if you want to.  I had it installed when I was on windows, and I believe it is a simple install and uninstall. Mike On 7/22/23 11:04, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-07-22 Thread Mike Scott
sing 'save as' but I've never had the problem you describe. Sorry. Philip On 18/07/2023 16:13, Mike Scott wrote: Hi all; a very weird issue has been found by my wife, which I can repeat on a separate machine. Both use LO 7.3.7.2 on Mint 21. What happens is this. Take an odt file, open it in Writ

[libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-07-18 Thread Mike Scott
/ kosher: 'ls -1 | od -cb' shows nothing untoward. And indeed, one or two of my own files show the same behaviour. (I rarely use 'Save As' anyway.) I'm at a bit of a loss about where to check next. Has anyone else experienced this please and can say what's happening? TIA. -- Mike Scott (unet2

Re: [libreoffice-users] Image Anchor Selection

2023-06-12 Thread Mike Scott
to [a web page with] some hints on the matter? And leave that in place for several releases. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Probl

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to unsubscribe

2023-05-28 Thread Mike Flannigan
Thanks for the laugh :-) On 5/25/23 07:14, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Subject: [libreoffice-users] How to unsubscribe From: Amn Ojee Uw Date: 5/24/23, 15:40 To: users@global.libreoffice.org What is needed to unsubscribe from this list? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc default font size

2023-05-22 Thread Mike Flannigan
Go to Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Fonts and change it there. Does that work? On 5/22/23 03:08, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Subject: [libreoffice-users] Calc default font size From: Philip Jackson Date: 5/21/23, 12:53 To: LibreOffice Using LO 7.3.7.2 in UbuntuStudio

Re: [libreoffice-users] Insert Special Characters

2023-05-01 Thread Mike Flannigan
AutoHotKey might work for you, but I find it difficult. You might find a clipboard manager easier to us. I use CopyQ on Linux.  Copy, and then pin it to the list. Mike On 5/1/23 05:27, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Insert Special Characters From

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing a row from a spreadsheet

2023-04-29 Thread Mike Flannigan
I suggest you use the concatenate command, perhaps multiple times with If commands included where needed to get the A-L columns combined into a single cell in the output format you desire. Mike On 4/27/23 03:04, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Subject: [libreoffice-users

[libreoffice-users] Re: Opening new file from same path as current open document

2023-03-05 Thread Mike Flannigan
.  I am not sure if it is due to LO or the windows manager program, but probably LO since it happens on both windows and Linux. Mike On 3/4/23 14:05, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: I am using LibreOffice 7.3.5.2 on Windows 11. I often have several LO files open at once. I may have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Badly formatted document

2022-07-04 Thread Mike Scott
ch' line. The single line should say foreach ... p')) { -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc function COUNTA

2022-06-26 Thread Mike Flannigan
That is no surprise to me. ISBLANK=0 is non-sensical and returns "#NAME?".  COUNTA counts that as a non-empty value.  All is good. Mike On 6/25/22 15:05, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Subject: [libreoffice-users] Calc function COUNTA From: Harvey Nimmo Date: 6/25

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nested Drop-down List

2022-05-21 Thread Mike Flannigan
Are you familiar with Auto Filter? Highlight all column headers and all the data below - then select Data - Autofilter. Is that what you want? You can set multiple filter criteria in the column header drop-downs. Select Data - Autofilter again to turn it off, if you want it off. Mike On 5

[libreoffice-users] Re: Adding Videos to Impress Presentation Not Possible

2022-05-07 Thread Mike Flannigan
With mine I need to do Insert - Audio or Video. Then it places the video on the slide, but I have no way to play it. http://www.mflan.com/temp/vid.png So inserting an image works fine, but not a video. Mike On 5/6/22 23:08, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Subject: [libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] odt to text keeping formatting?

2022-05-02 Thread Mike Scott
On 02/05/2022 15:33, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2022 14:47:39 +0100 Mike Scott wrote: Hello Mike, Save as text file produces something left-aligned - presumably because the indents seem to be a result of left-margin settings I see. My indents were as a result of tabs, so that would

Re: [libreoffice-users] odt to text keeping formatting?

2022-05-02 Thread Mike Scott
On 02/05/2022 11:54, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2022 11:38:29 +0100 Mike Scott wrote: Hello Mike, Is there any way of converting to a plain text file while keeping some semblance of the layout please? odt2txt extracts the text, but of course loses the indentation. Simply using "

[libreoffice-users] odt to text keeping formatting?

2022-05-02 Thread Mike Scott
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(resolved) Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice grabs network port

2022-04-25 Thread Mike Scott
All's well that end's well, I guess. Mojolicious has a steep learning curve, but is much easier and cleaner to use than php for this job. LO works, albeit slowly -- ~20 seconds to do the .odt->.doc conversion on a pi4. Again, thanks. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- Mike

[libreoffice-users] libreoffice grabs network port

2022-04-22 Thread Mike Scott
and oosplash listening on the same port (a high-numbered, obscure one). I can't even see how this is possible The question is, why does it do this, and how do I stop it? TIA. Linux mint, btw, ooo 6.4.7.2 -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The onl

Re: [libreoffice-users] corrupt files when using command line --print-to-file

2022-04-22 Thread Mike Scott
On 11/04/2022 17:17, Mike Scott wrote: On 11/04/2022 15:16, Philip Jackson wrote: Hi Mike, I'm using LO 6.4.7.2 on UbuntuStudio 20.04 LTS and your --headless command line instruction works and produces a pdf file which passed the pdfinfo check with flying colours. I just rechecked to make

Re: [libreoffice-users] corrupt files when using command line --print-to-file

2022-04-11 Thread Mike Scott
On 11/04/2022 15:16, Philip Jackson wrote: Hi Mike, I'm using LO 6.4.7.2 on UbuntuStudio 20.04 LTS and your --headless command line instruction works and produces a pdf file which passed the pdfinfo check with flying colours. I just rechecked to make sure.   So maybe your problem is distro

[libreoffice-users] corrupt files when using command line --print-to-file

2022-04-11 Thread Mike Scott
a .pdf instead - which is corrupt. So I get for example libreoffice --headless --print-to-file --outdir "./" "./y.odt" print /dhome/mike/homebrew software/service sheet production/web generator/y.odt -> /dhome/mike/homebrew software/service sheet production/web

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

2022-02-23 Thread Mike Flannigan
Try pasting into a text file and then copying from the text file.  Sometimes that works for me. There are more elegant ways of doing the same thing, but it usually involves writing a Perl script. Mike On 2/23/22 02:09, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Do you ever receive emails

Re: [libreoffice-users] Buy/Sell Calculation

2021-10-13 Thread Mike Flannigan
I guess the slave column could be column G. Can't you just copy the $15,25 'buy price' up into cells C:2 to C:9?  Then you can just calc the slave in column G with a consistent formula. Mike On 10/13/21 1:04 AM, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Hello, I have to calculate prices

Re: [libreoffice-users] RE: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-05 Thread Mike Flannigan
I haven't dealt with long wordprocessing documents on LO, but I have in MSWord.  And I have seen the exact same whack-a-mole behavior.  Going through the whole document and explicitly setting each section font size and style. Numbered lists seem to cause the most problems. Mike On 10/4/21 5

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Adapting row height is slow

2021-08-04 Thread Mike Flannigan
Thank you.  I'll check this out when I get home. Mike On 8/1/21 3:06 PM, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: As the sheet opens on the status bar at bottom of the Calc UI, a "Loading document" and progress bar appears, followed by the "Adapting row height" and it

[libreoffice-users] Re: Adapting row height is slow

2021-08-01 Thread Mike Flannigan
How do you view the progress and activities during the opening of a large file? Mike On 7/30/21 11:05 AM, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: When loading and, sometimes, editing it appears to take longer "Adapting row height" than the rest of the processing pu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Nabble users list down?

2021-07-23 Thread Mike Flannigan
I just read that nabble is going to be history. Lets see - here you go: https://support.nabble.com/The-Future-of-Nabble-td7605923.html Mike On 7/22/21 3:06 AM, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Subject: [libreoffice-users] Nabble users list down? From: jerr...@gmx.com Date: 7/21/21

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc how to display Autofilter values?

2021-06-13 Thread Mike Flannigan
Ahh.  Now I understand.  I can see how that might be useful. Sorry, but I don't know a way to do that right now. Seems like that might be a relatively easy thing to do, but I don't know how. Mike On 6/9/21 8:24 PM, Alan B wrote: Not at all what I'm trying to do. Distinct values have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc how to display Autofilter values?

2021-06-09 Thread Mike Flannigan
Ctrl-z again. Mike On 6/9/21 3:07 AM, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Many moons ago I was using some Calc sheets with AutoFilter routinely. The filter value would be changed, the sheet closed and sometime later opened again. To understand the displayed rows the filter values needed

Re: [libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-26 Thread Mike Scott
On 20/05/2021 14:11, Italo Vignoli wrote: On 5/20/21 12:15 PM, Mike Scott wrote: On 20/05/2021 10:46, Italo Vignoli wrote: I will check. I can sed the video back, and have the text on top of it, maybe is just the configuration of the text animation (as the text to be on top of the video has

Re: [libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-20 Thread Mike Scott
On 13/05/2021 21:58, Dave Howorth wrote: On Thu, 13 May 2021 17:14:26 +0200 Italo Vignoli wrote: On 5/13/21 4:59 PM, Mike Scott wrote: Sorry for following up my own post, but the laptop results were unexpected. Either drag-and-drop or using menu Insert gave the same results - both produced

Re: [libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-20 Thread Mike Scott
[resent] On 13/05/2021 21:58, Dave Howorth wrote: On Thu, 13 May 2021 17:14:26 +0200 Italo Vignoli wrote: On 5/13/21 4:59 PM, Mike Scott wrote: Sorry for following up my own post, but the laptop results were unexpected. Either drag-and-drop or using menu Insert gave the same results - both

Re: [libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-13 Thread Mike Scott
On 13/05/2021 12:11, Mike Scott wrote: Thank you again. Firstly, I was using drag-and-drop rather than using the menu & insert. It does seem the behaviour is unexpectedly different, and during design, d shows the icon, while 'insert' shows a frame from the video. As you say, the icon

Re: [libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-13 Thread Mike Scott
ther object, and you can superimpose the text. Also, no icon shows at the start of the video. Done in over 200 presentations during the last 10 years. On 5/13/21 9:48 AM, Mike Scott wrote: (resent) Thank you for your reply. However, the issue is not that I cannot insert a video into a s

Re: [libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-13 Thread Mike Scott
in the LibreOffice Impress Manual, with lot of details On 5/12/21 12:19 PM, Mike Scott wrote: Hi all. I've steered clear for some years of trying to include a video in an impress presentation, as I've always had problems. The need has re-arisen however, and I'm stuck on two points: 1. T

[libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-12 Thread Mike Scott
LO 6.4.7.2 running on Mint 20. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsub

[libreoffice-users] Calc: Formatting cell with decimal point but no decimal digits

2021-05-10 Thread Mike Flannigan
Type locale in a terminal.  What locale are you? I am 'en_US'. This works for me: Type 123.45 in a cell Highlight the cell Format - Cells - 'Numbers' tab - Make 'Decimal places:' under Options zero (0). Mike On 5/10/21 1:04 AM, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Hi list, I'd like

Re: [libreoffice-users] Updates change my spreadsheet row sizes

2021-02-14 Thread Mike Flannigan
This is the right place.  I suggest you record the width of your columns now, and then again after the next update to confirm they are changing in width. Mike I hope this is the right group. After every LibreOffice update I have to fiddle with my calc rows to get them to scroll right

Re: [libreoffice-users] Polish diacritical marks

2021-02-09 Thread Mike Flannigan
Thanks for the notice.  Consider filing a bug report: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/feedback/ It's certainly not easy, and I'm not sure I would do it, but perhaps you are interested. Mike On 2/8/21 4:06 PM, users+h...@global.libreoffice.org wrote: Hi, I have found that LO ver

Re: [libreoffice-users] Small OOoBean on Ubuntu

2020-11-28 Thread Mike Flannigan
I didn't do much research, but 10 years ago people were saying it was dead: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4387622/ooobeans-dead-what-are-my-alternatives I don't know if it revived since then. Mike I have successfully embedded libraOffice into our Java application using the OOoBean

Re: [libreoffice-users] impress - slide transitions not working

2019-12-21 Thread Mike Scott
about this a bit. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-he

Re: [libreoffice-users] impress - slide transitions not working

2019-12-16 Thread Mike Scott
is clearly, for some, a long-standing show-stopper regression :-{ I have found that 6.0.x on my 32 bit laptop works fine. I'm wondering if it's a specific 64-bit issue. Does anyone have a fix that I've missed please? On 13/12/2019 09:08, Mike Scott wrote: Hi all. I'm having a bit of trouble

[libreoffice-users] impress - slide transitions not working

2019-12-13 Thread Mike Scott
ions aren't really appropriate for the particular environment. Otherwise they'd be a workround.) -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http

Re: [libreoffice-users] Resize object symmetrically?

2019-09-14 Thread Mike Scott
all the choice you have. It's been an annoying (mis-)feature as long as I remember. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? ht

[libreoffice-users] odt file contents - naming of files in Pictures/ directory

2019-07-26 Thread Mike Scott
names are generated please? (Or where it would be documented. I've seen the odf spec does not define this area.) Thanks. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: user

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 6.2.x save dialog on Linux

2019-06-14 Thread Mike Scott
LO-style dialogues. If I pick 'LO-style' I see what you appear to be describing; clearing that checkbox gives a more sensible (IMO) dialogue box. (LO 5.1.6.2 on Mint Sylvia) -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit&quo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: FODT Write Error. The file could not be written.

2019-04-26 Thread Mike Scott
ing if you can do the equivalent save operation from there (you don't say why you think it's an LO issue). -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Draw: page numbering [RESENT]

2019-01-07 Thread Mike Scott
e numbers. I can't offhand see any way of changing LO's own numbering. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guid

[libreoffice-users] centring text boxes

2018-09-25 Thread Mike Scott
n an order of service for a funeral) decidedly frustrating. (Nor for that matter do styles work in a text box. I fail to understand the issues here.) (LO 5.1.6.2/Mint, BTW) -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon.

[resent] Re: [libreoffice-users] report builder query - how to suppress output.

2018-09-03 Thread Mike Scott
(originally sent from non-subscribed address; that seems to have vanished. Trying again with my subscribed list address) On 28/08/18 14:12, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Mike, I can do a simple-minded report using report builder, which looks at the moment to fulfil the need, except for one

[libreoffice-users] report builder query - how to suppress output.

2018-08-28 Thread Mike Scott
> Section in this context). I'm hoping I'm just missing something obvious - I'd be grateful for any pointers please. Also, is there a good tutorial around with examples for report builder? Thanks. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice - patches

2018-04-10 Thread Mike Scott
be advantageous. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer: how to disable table's tool tips

2018-02-10 Thread Mike
On 2/10/2018 4:30 AM, Heiko Tietze wrote: > Why don't you write a ticket on Bugzilla? There are always ways to suppress > tooltips completely. > That was my next step. I know about suppressing tool tips completely (found it in google), but I'd want to avoid that because I usually find them

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer: how to disable table's tool tips

2018-02-09 Thread Mike
On 2/9/2018 12:16 PM, V Stuart Foote wrote: > Just hit to immediately dismiss the tool-tip. Otherwise the tip will > appear for 4 seconds. >[snip] For me, that's not even a workaround. My left hand is on the mouse, not the keyboard. I'm somewhat surprised that such an annoying UI "feature" has

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: how to disable table's tool tips

2018-02-09 Thread Mike
On 2/8/2018 10:09 AM, Mike wrote: > LO 5.4.4.2 (x64) on Windows AMD64 > > Is there any way to turn off the tool tips associated with tables > ("Select table row", "Adjust table row" etc., etc.)? > > They are incredibly annoying, constantly popping

[libreoffice-users] Writer: how to disable table's tool tips

2018-02-08 Thread Mike
LO 5.4.4.2 (x64) on Windows AMD64 Is there any way to turn off the tool tips associated with tables ("Select table row", "Adjust table row" etc., etc.)? They are incredibly annoying, constantly popping up over the text I am trying to read and/or edit. In addition to being annoying, they are

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Calc-keep cell from imitating prior cell

2018-01-29 Thread Mike
On 1/29/2018 5:04 PM, Mike wrote: > On 1/29/2018 4:24 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote: >> Calc tends to copy what it thinks is the same entry from a prior cell in a >> column. My problem is how to keep it from doing that. >> >> Somewhere in a column I have ‘crème’. Now L

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Calc-keep cell from imitating prior cell

2018-01-29 Thread Mike
On 1/29/2018 4:24 PM, Eric Beversluis wrote: > Calc tends to copy what it thinks is the same entry from a prior cell in a > column. My problem is how to keep it from doing that. > > Somewhere in a column I have ‘crème’. Now LO won’t let me enter ‘creme’ > without the accent grave. How do I tell

Re: [libreoffice-users] Why are the people who answer users' questions are not getting counted?

2017-12-11 Thread Mike Saunders
a sticker, simply send me an email with your address and I'll put one in the post! And thanks again for your work :-) Cheers, Mike > From: Tim-L <webmas...@krackedpress.com> > Sent: Friday, December 8, 2017 9:56 AM > To: LibreO - Users Global > Subject: [libreoffice-users] W

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-users] Registered ”database”

2017-11-26 Thread Mike Adams
Why have you registered it as a database? Why not just import it into Calc and save it as a spreadsheet? I am guessing the CSV is being generated externally to LibreOffice? You could create a View of the data in Base. That is when and why registering it as a database becomes useful. That is when

(resent) Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: video issue -- thinking out loud and could do with help please

2017-11-11 Thread Mike Scott
On 09/11/17 17:34, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 09/11/2017 à 15:36, Mike Scott a écrit : I think the code is badly structured - the grabFrame method has no way of specifying an offset. It should have, and whatever runs the slide displaying should pick the first or last as appropriate

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: video issue -- thinking out loud and could do with help please

2017-11-09 Thread Mike Scott
On 09/11/17 10:12, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 09/11/2017 à 10:02, Mike Scott a écrit : Scott, You might have better luck posting your question to the developer mailing list, or directly on the dev IRC channel. Alex Maybe I'll go there, as I seem to have found a workable answer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: resolved (Re: getting LO source)

2017-11-09 Thread Mike Scott
On 09/11/17 09:04, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 08/11/2017 à 10:52, Mike Scott a écrit : Hi Mike, Having established it would build and run (with the same video problem, incidentally), I finally looked at the sources. Now I begin to see why changes take so long not a comment in sight

[libreoffice-users] video issue -- thinking out loud and could do with help please

2017-11-09 Thread Mike Scott
/knowledge/insights into whereabouts to look, that would be great. Sorry that's so long, but I think the symptoms need documenting somewhere. Any thoughts at all would be most welcome - thanks. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The onl

Re: resolved (Re: [libreoffice-users] getting LO source)

2017-11-08 Thread Mike Scott
On 07/11/17 05:51, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Le 06/11/2017 à 19:53, Mike Scott a écrit : [...] Problem fixed. But just how long should I expect for LO to build? I've seen estimates on the net of and hour or two on a less powerful processor than my own: but I've always had the impression

resolved (Re: [libreoffice-users] getting LO source)

2017-11-06 Thread Mike Scott
(resent - I think the 1st copy is stuck in moderation. Thanks to those who replied meanwhile) On 06/11/17 15:02, Gilles Gravier wrote: Mike, For me, it's downloading... I'm at 25% and no specific issue. I copy pasted your line directly. Try again now? Maybe a network or a server error

[libreoffice-users] getting LO source

2017-11-06 Thread Mike Scott
also tried git clone -n with the same result. I suspect the web page should show the -n ???) Help please? -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libr

Re: [libreoffice-users] missing checkboxes and radio-buttons in all dialogues

2017-10-19 Thread Mike Scott
ed for now, but cause unknown and still presumably due to something breaking between 5.1.6.2 (or 5.3.1.2) and 5.4.1.2. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@gl

[libreoffice-users] missing checkboxes and radio-buttons in all dialogues

2017-10-19 Thread Mike Scott
have any checkboxes in the options dialogues. Catch-22 maybe :-{ Help please? -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoff

Re: [libreoffice-users] video issues in Impress

2017-10-19 Thread Mike Scott
. Does no-one else on the list use video within Impress at all? Do people not generally have this problem? Or do they just put up with it? God bless you! He does. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To uns

[libreoffice-users] video issues in Impress

2017-10-18 Thread Mike Scott
windows XP) Thanks. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ P

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