Re: [Semibug] LO backups & OO [was OT: is there any office package (especially spreadsheet) that lets me choose a PEN color]

2024-05-23 Thread CAREY SCHUG
LO vs OO (topic 1) I was pissed when I was told I "had" to convert from OO to LO. LO was buggy (see below) later found a friend stayed with OO and was happy. any opinions on which of LO and OO (or others) do the best job on reading in XL or other formats? my experience is they have been pis

Re: [Semibug] OT: is there any office package (especially spreadsheet) that lets me choose a PEN color

2024-05-23 Thread CAREY SCHUG
ote: > > > CAREY SCHUG wrote on 2024-05-22 15:34: > > > I would like to choose a PEN color, e.g. red, no matter what I enter or > > change, no matter where, it will be in the pen color. > > As Carl mentioned, LibreOffice supports colourizing text. > > > > so I

Re: [Semibug] saving libre office often [was: is there any office package (especially spreadsheet) that lets me choose a PEN color

2024-05-22 Thread CAREY SCHUG
Years ago my spreadsheet often got into a non-working condition, but not in several years and I save often enough I don't need your special tool, which I don't understand from a quick read. --Carey > On 05/23/2024 1:26 AM CDT Steve Litt wrote: > ... > > Yes. If you *must* use LibreOffice, s

[Semibug] re tracking changes in libre office spreadsheet [was: OT: is there any office package (especially spreadsheet) that lets me choose a PEN color]

2024-05-22 Thread CAREY SCHUG
see also response to "comments" suggestin below --Carey > On 05/22/2024 9:43 PM CDT Ron / BCLUG wrote: > > ... > > Perhaps version tracking would help with this? > > All changes can be tracked and reviewed. > ok, found this page: https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-version-control/ it says...

Re: [Semibug] internal number storage in libre office calc [was: LibreOffice is summing incorrectly]

2024-05-22 Thread CAREY SCHUG
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[Semibug] OT: is there any office package (especially spreadsheet) that lets me choose a PEN color

2024-05-22 Thread CAREY SCHUG
I have a document I want to make changes to. I would like to choose a PEN color, e.g. red, no matter what I enter or change, no matter where, it will be in the pen color. so I can make a group of changes, then go back and verify them, when confirmed, change everything to black. This is prima

Re: [Semibug] LibreOffice is summing incorrectly

2024-05-22 Thread CAREY SCHUG
looking at gnumeric...it claims all numbers are stored in double precision, and yet there can be rounding error. First, I thought behavior I observed implied if I typed 4.73 into a cell, it was actually stored that way, was not converted to machine format till a calculation was done, is that c

Re: [Semibug] LibreOffice is summing incorrectly

2024-05-19 Thread CAREY SCHUG
perhaps your problem was partly because LibreOffice (and OpenOffice before) round numbers INCORRECTLY. to a real mathematician or scientist, when rounding to tenths, both 1.15 and 1.25 round to 1.2, meaning the even number in the next position, or at least that is what I remember from college,