Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer form design grid

2024-02-20 Thread Mike Scott
s, it does snap horizontally to the grid. Vertically however it seems to snap to positions between the grid points, taking two unequal steps to move between snap locations. Most odd. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Pr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer form design grid

2024-02-15 Thread Mike Scott
ot be a whole lot of help. The helplines do help to get rough alignment. -- 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

[libreoffice-users] Writer form design grid

2024-02-11 Thread Mike Scott
mething obvious! 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

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

2024-02-09 Thread Mike Scott
easily parseable by perl, ready to make a sql database. -- 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.do

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,

[libreoffice-users] pdf forms (OT?)

2024-02-08 Thread Mike Scott
too far OT; but any advice would 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.documentfou

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 ven

[libreoffice-users] font gone AWOL

2023-09-29 Thread Mike Scott
show it. I've not tried 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/ma

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: (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 unsubs

(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 f

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

2023-08-02 Thread Mike Scott
problems seem 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

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) Harlo

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

2023-08-01 Thread Mike Scott
o whatever is going 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/

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

2023-07-31 Thread Mike Scott
y (for now) behave in the two different ways. Thanks all for more comments. I hesitate to raise a bug report over this; for one thing the LO web bug page I found last time pretty incomprehensible, but for another it's really not repeatable enough. I'm not really sure where to go

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
he odd thing 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

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

2023-07-24 Thread Mike Scott
es to her contacts; in the mode where "JUNK.odt" 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

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

2023-07-22 Thread Mike Scott
I'm always using '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. T

[libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

2023-07-18 Thread Mike Scott
some weird character, but the filename /looks/ 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 t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Image Anchor Selection

2023-06-12 Thread Mike Scott
a pointer 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.libreo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Badly formatted document

2022-07-04 Thread Mike Scott
l line wrap in the 'foreach' 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

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
hanks. -- 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 guideline

(resolved) Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice grabs network port

2022-04-25 Thread Mike Scott
years ago, when I was running LO from apache/php without particular bother. 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->.do

[libreoffice-users] libreoffice grabs network port

2022-04-22 Thread Mike Scott
web link :-| I've seen multiple copies of soffice 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 [de

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

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

2022-04-11 Thread Mike Scott
actually created by a perl web script that modifies a template odt file, then converted using LO to either doc or pdf for the end user all running in the cgi context. IIRC simple pdf conversion loses brochure formatting when present in the document, hence use of --print-to-file. Philip On 11/

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

2022-04-11 Thread Mike Scott
in particular the 'brochure' setting, I'd be grateful. (This is with LO 6.4.7.2 under mint 20) -- 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-unsubscr

[libreoffice-users] From field in mail merge emails

2022-02-14 Thread Brian Scott
Hi all, So I've finally got mail merge emails working but have one last (hopefully) problem. I can't seem to change the name the recipient sees when they receive the email. I go into Tools/Options/LibreOffice Writer/Mail Merge Email. I change Your Name and hit okay (tried apply as well). But w

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-04 Thread Scott Kostyshak
ul comparison, Virgil! It was interesting for me to read about your experience and workflow. I'm happy to have both LyX and LO and I'm very thankful to all of the developers giving their free time for these open source programs! Scott -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@glob

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&d shows the icon, while 'insert' shows a frame from the video. As you

Re: [libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-13 Thread Mike Scott
, the video can be sent to back as any other 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 tha

Re: [libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-13 Thread Mike Scott
ined 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 t

[libreoffice-users] videos in impress

2021-05-12 Thread Mike Scott
nd for these please? Thanks. 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-h

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

2019-12-21 Thread Mike Scott
27;s desktop (also mint 18.x). I'll have to think 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.libre

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

2019-12-16 Thread Mike Scott
't addressed what 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: H

[libreoffice-users] impress - slide transitions not working

2019-12-13 Thread Mike Scott
the other working transitions 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.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Resize object symmetrically?

2019-09-14 Thread Mike Scott
zontally. And that's 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...@globa

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

2019-07-26 Thread Mike Scott
ay exactly how those 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 un

RE: [libreoffice-users] Help with formula - number conversion

2019-07-12 Thread scott
I have unsubscribed numerous times. Stop sending me your junk! -Original Message- From: Harvey Nimmo Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2019 1:55 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with formula - number conversion On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 14:05 -0400, Tanstaafl

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&q

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

2019-04-26 Thread Mike Scott
r and seeing 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..

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

2019-01-07 Thread Mike Scott
ace for the 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-unsub

[libreoffice-users] centring text boxes

2018-09-25 Thread Mike Scott
st started on 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&

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

2018-09-03 Thread Mike Scott
using to generate ODF documents from a spreadsheet -- seems easier to cut perl code than understand Report Builder. :-( :-( -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon.

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

2018-08-28 Thread Mike Scott
relevant to LO -- (I can't find Insert > 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 [deletet

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice - patches

2018-04-10 Thread Mike Scott
ggestion alternative might 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-list

(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. Is

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. Not

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 for

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

2017-11-09 Thread Mike Scott
decidedly dated experience of C++ :-{ ). If anyone has any experience/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 (

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 imp

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

2017-11-06 Thread Mike Scott
ssion it would be a seriously long time. -- 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.libreof

[libreoffice-users] getting LO source

2017-11-06 Thread Mike Scott
ore" (I 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

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

2017-10-19 Thread Mike Scott
roblem fixed 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+unsu

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

2017-10-19 Thread Mike Scott
I don't 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?

Re: [libreoffice-users] video issues in Impress

2017-10-19 Thread Mike Scott
do I. 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. -- T

[libreoffice-users] video issues in Impress

2017-10-18 Thread Mike Scott
x27;m almost sure this happened in days of yore under 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.libre

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reading from a USB device.

2017-08-28 Thread Mike Scott
ng something together -- I'd be looking at qsynth, jack and jack_mixer as a start point. Maybe they'll run on windows. I'd not know. I'd most certainly /not/ be looking to do any usb-level programming; that bit's already been done. Or maybe I've totally mi

[libreoffice-users] writer table issues - lines that mis-behave

2017-08-22 Thread Mike Scott
All a bit weird. Anyone else had similar issues? -- 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/h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Simple way to draw graphs ?

2017-08-15 Thread Mike Scott
ed into an LO document. As others have pointed out, beware copyright of the data. -- 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] Libre Office saving spreadsheets as images when saving as Word docx!?

2017-04-17 Thread Mike Scott
c document with embedded text and images; I'd suggest this would export better to something MS might support. He doesn't say why he needs to export to docx - I thought these days MS had some support for ODF documents. Could the recipient not cope with the odt file? -- Mik

[libreoffice-users] keeping styles up-to-date

2017-01-20 Thread Mike Scott
macro could do this; I'm afraid I don't have the expertise to craft one though :-{ ) TIA for any advice! -- 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] MS Anniversary upgrade warning - not LO issue

2016-12-07 Thread Mike Scott
use linux, dual-boot is a necessity. Such a licence probably wouldn't work in a virtual machine. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffic

removal of attachments on mailing list (was Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem with instalation)

2016-08-18 Thread Mike Scott
he LO various lists. It gives enough information to know to subscribe to users@ to get help, but there's no warning about removal of attachments. Maybe this needs changing? ISTM a warning plus advice on how to submit attachments would do no harm. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonl

Re: [libreoffice-users] Date field in a spreadsheet

2016-07-27 Thread Mike Scott
then specifying the date format :-{ Is there any (good) reason Calc doesn't have the same "Insert|Field" menu as Writer? I do dislike inconsistencies like this. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit"

Re: [libreoffice-users] Data Range in Calc

2016-07-08 Thread Mike Scott
to follow up to the list, rather than to any individual. At the very least, you get the benefit of the collected wisdom, while others may benefit from any discussion.) On 7 July 2016 at 16:15, Mike Scott mailto:v...@scottsonline.org.uk>> wrote: On 07/07/16 14:37, Pat Brown wro

Re: [libreoffice-users] Data Range in Calc

2016-07-07 Thread Mike Scott
data range. Am I missing something or is this just not possible? Is it really necessary to re-create each graph from scratch? No. Double-click on the chart background to select it. Right-click on any point (or a trend line) and select "Data Ranges" -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis]

Re: [libreoffice-users] Creating a thick line in Libre Draw and Writer

2016-07-03 Thread Mike Scott
e into the internals. But it's by no means the only, nor the worst, craziness in LO's (inherited) design. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@glo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: background color in cells invisible

2016-06-10 Thread Mike Scott
1.3.2 (linux) has two protection options under the Tools menu. IIRC it used to be in a different place though. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England "The only way is Brexit" -- anon. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc - Count a "similar sequence"

2016-06-07 Thread Mike Scott
nix-specific, but nevertheless available for windows). But the OP did actually specify "similar", not "identical", in which case one is entering very murky waters, and a precise definition of 'similar' is needed. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex "T

[libreoffice-users] Re: justification issues

2016-04-30 Thread Mike Scott
ndering if it's worth putting this in formally as an enhancement request -- or would it be so unlikely to get looked at that it'd not be worth the effort? -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www

justification issues (was: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer 5.1.1.3 - space correction between text words)

2016-04-29 Thread Mike Scott
fg sdf gsd fgs dfg sdfg sdf gsd fgsdf -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- 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:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Awkward behaviour of LO Calc

2016-03-30 Thread Mike Scott
On 30/03/16 14:37, Mike Scott wrote: Excel is documented as Calc's order, ie the opposite. And MS are inconsistent - VB puts exponentiation above unary - (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fw84t893.aspx) opposite to Excel. Oh well :-) -- Mike Scott (unet2 [delet

Re: [libreoffice-users] Awkward behaviour of LO Calc

2016-03-30 Thread Mike Scott
as though opinion is divided. I'd suggest always using brackets to be sure and clear. In any case, it really needs documenting for Calc. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffic

Re: [libreoffice-users] Awkward behaviour of LO Calc

2016-03-29 Thread Mike Scott
'print -3**2, "\n"' -9 Oh well. Caveat programmer, I suppose. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Awkward behaviour of LO Calc

2016-03-29 Thread Mike Scott
Microsoft Office Excel (and other spreadsheet applications) and the programming language bc, unary operators have a higher priority than binary operators" Contrary to, eg, perl. Ouch! Quite contrary to expectation. Here lie monsters :-) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubsc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: No indent in footnotes

2016-03-24 Thread Mike Scott
commenting on either PoV, does this not suggest that footnote formatting (and probably other similar issues) should have a default controlled by the locale? -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffi

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO ver. 5.1.0.3 calc - missing menu functions

2016-03-09 Thread Mike Scott
m the 'Help' menu to the release notes, plus a popup on first running a new version to remind the user? -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how

Re: [libreoffice-users] 5.1.1 breaks anchored-as-character frames

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Scott
On 03/03/16 13:41, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Mike, Mike Scott schrieb: [..] Is there a way of reverting to an earlier 5.x? Synaptic doesn't offer these, and makes switching versions something close to agonizingly hard. Thanks. I can easily make an administrative installation of any ve

(resolved) Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 5.1.1 breaks anchored-as-character frames

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Scott
t's been a bit of a time waster. If nothing else, I've learned a bit more about dpkg and friends! -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org P

Re: [libreoffice-users] 5.1.1 breaks anchored-as-character frames

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Scott
he only problem is that I can't see how to have two versions installed at once, so logging a bug against 5.1.1 would be a problem. FWIW 5.1.0 does behave correctly though. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-

Re: [libreoffice-users] 5.1.1 breaks anchored-as-character frames

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Scott
option - but not for the LO PPA: I had to disable that PPA, revert to ubuntu's own (4.x), completely deinstall LO, then reinstall to downgrade. Very messy, but not an LO issue! -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+u

[libreoffice-users] (OT-ish) gmane web access oddity

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Scott
TP/1.1" 404 310 lo.gmane.org(80.91.229.12) - - [03/Mar/2016:13:18:07 +] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 27 Can't be a coincidence, I think. Normal behaviour? New? Reasonable? I'm surprised, because it means gmane is guessing a url from an email address. At least i

[libreoffice-users] 5.1.1 breaks anchored-as-character frames

2016-03-03 Thread Mike Scott
nged. Anyone else having problems, or can shed light please? Is there a way of reverting to an earlier 5.x? Synaptic doesn't offer these, and makes switching versions something close to agonizingly hard. Thanks. (Mint 17, btw, in case it's relevant) -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deleteth

[libreoffice-users] unwanted 'document recovery' dialogue (was: Re: Cannot delete horizontal red line)

2016-01-19 Thread Mike Scott
4.2 to be precise). Using Mint 17. Never an issue with 4.whatever-it-was. I use Writer, save and exit, and am occasionally immediately greeted by the recovery dialogue followed (IIRC) by the generic LO startup window. Anyone else noticed this? It's not repeatable to order, and is quite

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread Mike Scott
the precision drops to about 3mm because the entries are rounded by the GUI to 2 dp in feet. Rational behaviour? Not from a user's POV. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problem

Re: [libreoffice-users] precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread Mike Scott
es or km, and "Lines" - whatever they are. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelin

Re: [libreoffice-users] precision of Draw dimensions - 3 place

2015-11-19 Thread Mike Scott
standing unfixed issue: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=9688 (from 2008) If you work in mm, the 2 decimal places the GUI so unreasonably forces will give a precision of 10μm. Not altogether convenient for the "traditionally minded" among us though :-) -- Mike Scott (une

Re: [libreoffice-users] Frames v text boxes

2015-11-10 Thread Mike Scott
hy anyone would wish to disallow this in the first place.) I'm sure this must be documented somewhere. All I've done is look at content.xml, and potter a bit for a few minutes, so may well be missing something important. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tooo many messages on this mailing list?? How to avoid being swamped ...

2015-10-15 Thread Mike Scott
ry differently from each other. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex England -- 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.doc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: file dialogue choice

2015-10-10 Thread Mike Scott
On 10/10/15 15:02, Mike Scott wrote: On 10/10/15 14:30, Graham Luffrum wrote: Under my version of LO 5.0.2.2 (under Linux Mint 17.2 32 bit) I still have the choice between LO's dialogues and the system dialogues. Curious. I've got "Version: 5.0.2.2 Build ID: 00m0(Build:2

[libreoffice-users] Re: file dialogue choice

2015-10-10 Thread Mike Scott
e on it. I see only areas labelled "Load", "Save" and "Default File Format and ODF Settings" each with a number of checkboxes. Nothing anywhere to restore my preferred dialogue box style. Anyone any idea how to switch back please? -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in Impress and file dialogue choice

2015-10-10 Thread Mike Scott
On 09/10/15 20:24, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Mike Scott wrote: On 09/10/15 12:43, Malcolm Moore wrote: ... This is outstandingly horrible ! Yes. My summary for anyone in the same boat suffering from brain failure at the end of the week: . It will then work for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing in Impress

2015-10-09 Thread Mike Scott
hen a substantive change is made followed by a save, the print info is saved as well. But if you need to change it again, you have to go through the whole procedure again. At least it seems that way after a quick experiment. -- Mike Scott (unet2 [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk) Harlow Essex En

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