Re: SOLVED Re: [libreoffice-users] No menus for LibreOffice install on Chrubuntu

2014-03-18 Thread Don C. Myers
Hi Tom, I'm about a week behind on real work at the moment. I really think it is a Chrubuntu issue and not a LO office since I've not have any issues on a half dozen or more regular Ubuntu installs. Don On 03/18/2014 07:56 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Congrats on figuring out what is going

[libreoffice-users] Inserting DRAW file as linked OLE in WRITER file?

2014-03-18 Thread Mucip
Hi, I am writing manual book of machine. I've got many pictures. I import this picture one by one to DRAW file and I put arrow sign or text box on some points of the pictures. I import this DRAW file as linked OLE object. But I can not center the picture in OLE container/frame? When I adjust it o

[libreoffice-users] How to put Basic IDE code completion to work

2014-03-18 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Found new Basic IDE options in 4.2 , but where to find some documentation how this new stuff works ? Thanks for any hint Fernand -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guideli

Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows-Mac compatibility

2014-03-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It is better to just install the same fonts on all machines. Some fonts, particularly ones on Mac and Windows are copyrighted using many many different weird licenses. The standard MS fonts, such as "Times New Roman", Arial, Trebuchet, Verdana all have a standard very interesting copyright.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Font size in PDF form

2014-03-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Err, first find what style the fields are using. Then right-click on that style in the styles-toolbar and choose "modify" I would do this by (errr, this is probably not the most efficient elegant way!) ... 1. close the styles toolbar 2. move the cursor into one of the problematic fields

Re: [libreoffice-users] alphabetical index: how do they work?

2014-03-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hmmm, sorry about that! I haven't used Zotero myself but seen that many other people really appreciate it. I got the impression it was much easier to use. I should have said that it's an independent product and doesn't appear in the LO Extension's library. Sorry about that! Nicely found!

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with formatting a piece of text?

2014-03-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Congrats on figuring it out and adapting Brian's advice until it did work. Brian is usually precisely and exactly right so it's good to see he's human too. Also thanks for posting the correct answer back to the mailing-list so that people in the future have more hope of finding the exact ri

Re: SOLVED Re: [libreoffice-users] No menus for LibreOffice install on Chrubuntu

2014-03-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Congrats on figuring out what is going wrong there!! Any chance posting a bug-report about it because that is clearly not helpful for most normal users! Congrats, thanks and regards from Tom :) On 18 March 2014 04:18, Don Myers wrote: > For some reason the libreofficeX.X-debian-menus file

Re: [libreoffice-users] Thunderbird - too many Address Books

2014-03-18 Thread Scott Castaline
I've always used as my first entry in each address book @@@. That seems to still work as far as I can tell. My understanding is that the bots can't seem to deal with that entry or it'll ignore the rest once it encounters it. On 03/18/2014 01:31 PM, anne-ology wrote: What I've done -

Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows-Mac compatibility

2014-03-18 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2014-03-19 01:55, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It is better to just install the same fonts on all machines. Some fonts, particularly ones on Mac and Windows are copyrighted using many many different weird licenses. The standard MS fonts, such as "Times New Roman", Arial, Trebuchet, Verdana all h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Thunderbird - too many Address Books

2014-03-18 Thread anne-ology
What I've done - in order to avoid allowing these roving-robots access to my e-address list - is to keep them in a notepad document ... separating by categories then when I wish to send an e-mail pertinent to some group, I merely select that section, copy, then paste

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with formulas between Excel and LO

2014-03-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Nicely done Pedro and Ernie! :) Congrats and regards from Tom :) On 18 March 2014 10:28, Pedro wrote: > Alex Thurgood wrote >> I agree, we need some pointers from the original poster, unless someone >> who speaks Swedish can sort it out. > > Problem was solved by private mail with the origi

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with formulas between Excel and LO

2014-03-18 Thread Pedro
Alex Thurgood wrote > I agree, we need some pointers from the original poster, unless someone > who speaks Swedish can sort it out. Problem was solved by private mail with the original poster. I couldn't replicate the problem in Windows XP and apparently it was no longer a problem in 4.2.2.1 unde

[libreoffice-users] Re: Copying cell contents to create phrase

2014-03-18 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 17/03/2014 19:34, Budgie a écrit : Hi, > > "the data in the booking date column must not have the time. So > highlight all the cells then right click over them and click on format > cells. Click on custom under category and then scroll up the options to > find dd/mm/. Then select that

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with formulas between Excel and LO

2014-03-18 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 17/03/2014 09:19, Ernest Karlsson a écrit : Hi Ernest, > > We run Ubuntu at our school, Mellansels Folk High School, but our principal > creates lots of excel files that need to work in both environments. Our > time reporting file stopped working in the 4.0> LO update. We were unable > to fig

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with formulas between Excel and LO

2014-03-18 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 17/03/2014 20:41, Steve Edmonds a écrit : > This opens in my LO 3 without an error, but I have no idea where to > start to enter some data to get the sheet to the condition you obtain an > error. I agree, we need some pointers from the original poster, unless someone who speaks Swedish can so

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with formulas between Excel and LO

2014-03-18 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 17/03/2014 12:36, e-letter a écrit : > The document appears to be a template file (suffix .xlt). No password > was requested to open the file. > The password is set at sheet level. If you try to deactivate sheet protection, you will be asked for the password. As for the rest, well, I don't s