Word-processor component of the LibreOffice office suite
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Exporting vector graphics from Inskcape into Libreoffice
I'm trying to export a reasonably complex illustration from Inkscape into a Libreoffice Writer document. I'd like to avoid rasterizing the illustration as much as possible.
So far I've tried the ...
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Full screen view in LibreOffice?
Is there a way to view and edit documents in LibreOffice Writer in fullscreen? Preferably, I would like to view two pages side by side, but it is not necessary.
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How do you search and replace page breaks in Libre Office?
How do you search and replace page breaks in Libre Office Writer? For example, I may want to remove all manually inserted page breaks (^m in MS Word). I can search for line breaks and paragraph breaks ...
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How to search and replace special characters in LibreOffice / OpenOffice Writer?
I love LibreOffice / OpenOffice, but some tasks we cannot do in it, like mentioned in this question title: search and replace special characters in Writer. Someone does know how to do that?
You can ...
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How do I set the paper color in LibreOffice Writer?
In LibreOffice Writer, if I choose
Format -> Page... -> Background -> Background color
I can set a background color, but it is only used within the margins. How do I set the paper color?
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How can I set the default font in LibreOffice or Microsoft Office?
When I open Microsoft Word, Excel or LibreOffice Writer, I need to have a default font configured.
How can I set this up in LibreOffice / Microsoft Office under Linux (e.g. Ubuntu), Windows XP or ...
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How to change the font of all equations in LibreOffice Writer
Is there a way to quickly change the font of all equations in a document? Maybe there's a built-in style for them or something...
I don't want to set a default style for new ones, but to change ...
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How to get page number in LibreOffice writer in other languages?
I am trying to get non-English page number in LibreOffice writer. Specifically, I need page numbers in Bengali (Bangla).
To begin with, I tried changing the font. I found that the auxiliary texts ...
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Insert > Horizontal rule is missing in LibreOffice 4.0
I'm probably one of the few who uses this, but I use it a lot. After my upgrade to LibreOffice 4.0, the Horizontal rule menu item is missing from the Writer Insert menu. Where did it go? How can I get ...
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LibreOffice Calc/Writer: How to get the dates for specifc weekdays per month?
I'm stuck with a problem in LibreOffice Calc or Writer:
I try to get a table of dates for every Monday, Wednesday and Friday per month, something that I can load every new month wich sets the dates ...
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Creating automatic links in OpenOffice
Are there any macros for OpenOffice that enable certain words to automatically be replaced with hyperlinks?
Every time I type the word "google" in OpenOffice, I want the word to become a hyperlink to ...
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How can I get LibreOffice to 'number' footnotes in the order *, †, ‡, § etc.?
With LaTeX, I can do:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[symbol*]{footmisc}
\begin{document}
One\footnote{f1} Two \footnote{f2} Three \footnote{f3} Four \footnote{f4}
\end{document}
And ...
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Show percent completion in Word, with a target word count
I know Word shows you the Word count, but is it possible to set a target word count, and then make it display the percentage of completion?
So for instance, if you'd set the target at 1800 words, and ...
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Libreoffice considering ordinary text as headings
I am preparing my thesis with several headings and subheadings. In fact I started writing the report first and later went on to add pages in the beginning to insert title page, certificate, abstract, ...
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Multiple find and replace in a word document
I want to do a series of find and replace operations. Unfortunately, the documents I have to work on are in Word (.docx) format so I cannot script this. These are book chapters so formatting is ...
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Trouble replacing Office with LibreOffice
I have a proprietary program that requires users to occasionally make very minor edits to a word document. I want to replace Word with LibreOffice Writer. I have Writer set to open .doc and .docx ...
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How to efficiently insert a table from R into a Word document?
I am creating a Word document (.docx) using LibreOffice. I need to include some numeric results I calculated in R. They look like a simple table of numbers, with text captions for the rows and ...
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Two instances of the same table in the document
In LibreOffice writer I have a table on which I perform some small calculations.
How can I have an instance of the same table on another page in the same document (automatically updated)?
(e.g. ...
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grammar check support in openoffice/libreoffice works as expected?
Apparently, when I go to Tools -> "Spelling and Grammer" dialog box in OpenOffice Writer, it only does the spell checking. Further, it only adds red underlines for spelling mistakes, no green ...
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LibreOffice hide page numbers
My text files contents are;
cover sheet, page break, default
toc
page break, first page
pages with content
I want to hide the fields on the first and second page (cover sheet & toc), but if I ...
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How to prevent LibreOffice running 'recover' at each startup?
How to prevent LibreOffice running 'recover' at each start-up?
On Ubuntu, each time I restart my computer, and then start LibreOffice, it asks me whether I want to recover documents. It does this ...
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How to add marginal numbers / recitals to word processing documents?
I'm looking for a stable, user-friendly and flexible way to add marginal numbers / "recitals" to word processing documents. With "marginal numbers" i mean numbers appearing on the page margin, similar ...
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Dynamically refer to an image in OpenOffice.org Writer
In OpenOffice.org Writer I have a drawing with a caption that I would like to reference dynamically by its associated number.
For example: An image has the caption "Drawings 1.3 some text".
In ...
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How do I export a LibreOffice document as a PDF with working, external hyperlinks?
I'm trying to export a LibreOffice document to PDF and have my hyperlinks open in a browser, but no matter what I do it seems as though they try to open them locally (i.e in my file system). I don't ...
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Table background not being saved when I save table style in Libre Office Writer
I'm trying to save a table style as a named style in LibreOffice writer. My process so far has been as follows:
Select the table whose style I want to save, then use the following
Format Menu ->
...
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How can I insert auto-numbered sentences in LibreOffice Writer?
I want to achieve a formatting like this:
Some text which references (1), for example because (1) might be an example sentence for some grammatical structure which is explained here.
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Is it possible to convert one paragraph style into another in libreoffice?
I have a scanned document in libreoffice that has a lot of different paragraph styles. I'd like to merge those numerous styles into a few so that the layout is more managable. I know styles can be ...
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Images in docx file move when I reopen the file with Libreoffice Writer
I'm using LibreOffice 4.0.0 to document my project, and I have a lot images in the document (.docx file).
But, after I place the images in their correct location, save and close LibreOffice Writer ...
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How do you save a LibreOffice Writer file as plain text?
I got upgraded from Open Office to Libre Office when I installed a new version of Ubuntu. I have been working with MS Word copies of my resume in OO and all was fine. One employer wanted a plain text ...
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What's the LibreOffice Writer equivalent to attaching a CSS file to an HTML document?
Are there any built in styles that will make the whole document look different immediately, based on Headers and Lists, etc?
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Insert page number in LibreOffice Writer?
I created a document in LibreOffice Writer. I tried to add the page number in the footer by clicking on Insert -> Footer -> Default Style. Then, I clicked Insert -> Fields -> Page Number, but the page ...
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Automatically highlight certain words in Libre/OpenOffice
Is there a way to make LibreOffice automatically highlight certain words in some color?
I often write "todo" in files to remind me to come back later and finish something up, etc.
It would be very ...
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Is it possible to fold text with LibreOffice Writer?
Is it possible to fold text with LibreOffice Writer?
I'm talking about a way to have not so much used lines folded into just one, that can be expanded if you click on the '+' that lies on the left. ...
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Trouble with LibreOffice index and styles
I have a problem with creating an index to a document: it was not created from me, and it had the headers of the chapters as normal text, without using styles. I applied styles (Header 1, 2, 3 and ...
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How do I apply two styles in the same line in LibreOffice?
Problem:
How do I apply two styles in the same line in LibreOffice?
The main problem is that I need two different styles:
one for the index and
one that is not supposed to appear in the index
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Open Office \ Microsoft Word compatibility problems with paragraph directions
I'm trying to use Open Office (specifically, I tested LibreOffice 3.3) for writing documents, which should be shared with MS Word users.
This documents include Hebrew text, that uses right to left ...
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How do I stop LibreOffice Writer putting selected fonts at the top of the drop-down menu?
Whenever I select a font in LibreOffice Writer, it gets prefixed to the top of the menu.
This wouldn't be a big deal if, when typing the name, it ignored the font at the top and skipped to it in the ...
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LibreOffice Caption with page breaks?
When I create a writer document with a rather large image, and then add a longish caption to the image, the caption is either cropped or runs over the footer.
I'd prefer it to treat it more like ...
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ignore or override current document page formatting with predefined settings automatically libreoffice
When opening a document made by someone else, I would like the margins to automatically be set to 0.4 cm, the page orientation to landscape and page size to A3.
My dad gets emailed a spreadsheet ...
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How to “lock” page contents in LibreOffice?
Example:
------------------------------
| Title |
| Subtitle |
| |
| Body |
| . |
| . ...
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Make LibreOffice Writer insert pictures “as character” by default?
When I paste an image into LibreOffice Writer, it is anchored "To paragraph" by default (as shown in the image right click menu -> Picture... -> Type -> Anchor).
Of course I can change this on a ...
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Get the number of pages a table spans
I work with several ODT documents which include tables to be printed and filled in by hand. These tables contain in the header a cell with text "Sheet ____ of ____" to be filled in by hand once ...
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Creating a template for a Writer-based calendar (diary)
I'm currently working on a calendar for the new year – a daily planner, a diary! Something for GTD (Getting things done) based on a diary with planner options. It is created in OpenOffice or ...
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How to configure own shortcuts for styles?
When I Ctrl+B a selected text, it will become bold. Alas, this style is directly formatted, which means it gets lost once I default via Ctrl+M. Yet whenever I reset the whole document, I only want it ...
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remove hyperlinks in libre office
How can I remove hyperlinks in LibreOffice documents? The remove-hyperlink entry in the context-menu isn't working. It's LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 shipped with Ubuntu Precise Pangolin.
Thank you in ...
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automatically removing linebreaks in LibreOffice Writer
Often I find that I copy text from a gedit (linux) text editor document into a word processor like LibreOffice Writer. Of course I have hard linebreaks coded into the text.
How can I do a search and ...
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Create a hyperlink to an email address in OpenOffice/LibreOffice Writer
I am running OpenOffice 3.4 on OS X 10.6.8. How do I link to an email address in a Writer document. I tried typing the email address in the document, selecting it, clicking the link button on the ...
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What are the keymappings for the LibreOffice AutoCorrect “Accept with”?
LibreOffice has a pretty limited method of assigning the key to accept autocorrections, I know what three of the five options are, but have no idea what the other two options represent.
LibreOffice ...
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Convert MS Word frames to table
Is there a way to convert Microsoft Word frames to table?
I use export feature of old Crystal Reports which export invoice file with every field in frame.
I'm trying to use these files in ...
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How to view in heading mode on libreoffice writer?
In docs,the text can be heading1,heading2,...etc.
heading1
heading2
heading3
...
For example:
t1a
abcd
...yyy
t2a
efgh
...xxx
ijkl
If I want ...
