Re: [libreoffice-users] Language setting in Calc

2021-02-21 Thread Brian Barker
At 20:35 21/02/2021 +0900, Howard Barr wrote: I have been using English and Japanese both in msexcel and LO calc for many years. I receive an excel file and then make a duplicate. When I want to send a draft, I save it as an excel file and send it to the editor. I sometimes have problems when s

Re: [libreoffice-users] Language setting in Calc

2021-02-21 Thread Brian Barker
At 09:19 21/02/2021 +, Dave Howorth wrote: Apparently it is possible,since the OP originally stated: "The original file is so formatted that there are font settings for English and Japanese. When I work at home (right now) I select the relevant columns and change the language setting to Ge

Re: [libreoffice-users] Language setting in Calc

2021-02-21 Thread Howard Barr
Hi, I have been using English and Japanese both in msexcel and LO calc for many years. I receive an excel file and then make a duplicate. When I want to send a draft, I save it as an excel file and send it to the editor. I sometimes have problems when special characters are used. I use the the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Language setting in Calc

2021-02-21 Thread Dave Howorth
On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:40:56 + Brian Barker wrote: > At 15:09 20/02/2021 -0800, Nobody Noname wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 8:27 AM Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: > >>The (Excel) file is the draft for the preparation of a > >>questionnaire - to be translated into several languages (although

Re: [libreoffice-users] Language setting in Calc

2021-02-20 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:09 20/02/2021 -0800, Nobody Noname wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 8:27 AM Thomas Blasejewicz wrote: The (Excel) file is the draft for the preparation of a questionnaire - to be translated into several languages (although the one I am currently working on has only 3 languages). Means: I w

Re: [libreoffice-users] Language setting in Calc

2021-02-20 Thread cspi...@ieee.org
I did a little test and was able to reproduce your problem with the Column > Format Cells > Font > Polish (which is just the test language I used). I could reproduce the problem when working with the document as an .xlsx or .xls file, but the problem does NOT exist when I used a .ods file. So the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Language setting in Calc

2021-02-20 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
On 2021/02/20 6:14, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: This may be an answer. Choose Tools - Options. Go to Language Settings - Languages. Under Default languages for documents, select the document language for all newly created documents. If you mark For the current document only, your choice will o

Re: [libreoffice-users] Language setting in Calc

2021-02-19 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
This may be an answer. Choose Tools - Options. Go to Language Settings - Languages. Under Default languages for documents, select the document language for all newly created documents. If you mark For the current document only, your choice will only apply to the current document. http://

[libreoffice-users] Language setting in Calc

2021-02-19 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
Good evening In my line of work (translator) I often forced to use MS Office files. Right now I am working with an Excel worksheet. I am not allowed to change file name, format or anything else am only supposed to enter the German translation of a Japanese text into the designated columns. Fine