Thanks for that comment. Am I on the right forum for LibO? After a lot more trial & error, I can now see what is happening (roughly). When I select best image quality with the Quality slider pushed to 100, it sets the resolution to 37dpi & produces a 19.02cm x 12.86cm 346.6kB image with 719 ...

I often use Draw to produce annotated versions of small photographs (adding arrows & text mostly) & have been satisfied with the process as being much simpler than using, for instance Gimp. My method is to open a new Draw document, insert a JPEG image, add required text etc, group the additi...

As I said in by original post, I am having the problem with LibreOffice 4.2.7.2.

I have not been back to check any of my other versions, but I think this only started fairly recently (weeks?).

Ah! In trying to find a non-confidential chart with the problem, I have done a lot of manipulating & have clarified what is happening. I often use Calc with windows unmaximized to a shallow height, so I can also see other windows. If I have set Window Freeze, then if I raise the bottom edge of t...

The ones I use most have a lot of personal information on...

I will either remove some information or create a dummy file & see if that has the problem.

Not sure how long that may take!

Thanks for your interest!

Oh .xls is ancient history.

The charts I am talking about now were created & saved as .ods.

Many of my Calc documents use the Window Freeze feature to keep column headings visible over long columns. I have been using the feature continuously for years, through Excel, OpenOffice then LibreOffice. Recently (days/weeks?) I find that the Freezing is sometimes lost when I re-open Calc documents...

No - I made a clean start, just bringing over my data.

Then I manually copied over my custom toolbars, but nothing else.

For other reasons, I replaced my very old PC by a new one. After a fresh installation of 14.04.1 & using Unity, I no longer have the erratic window behaviour. All windows unmaximise as expected. But I shall never know what caused the original problem or what fixed it! Best of luck with finding a...

Well - I have 2 computers with a number of different OS's & different versions of OOo & LibO, so I have just been through all of them to see which ones work OK & which ones don't. Results: OK Desktop - XP - OOo 3.3.0 Netbook - W7 - LibO 3.3.4 Netbook - Ubuntu 12.04.4 Unity - LibO 3.5.7.2...

8 months later & now on LibO 4.1.3.2 with Ubuntu 13.10 & still plagued by the same crazy behaviour. So long as I remember to unmaximise windows before closing them, I can keep a normal (smaller) size unmaximised window next time. If ever I close a window from maximised, or open a new documen...

Thank you!

That works perfectly.

Sorry I never found it myself...

Hi! Recently (since upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10 with LibO 4.1.3.2 ?) I am annoyed to find my Calc sheets cluttered with Page Breaks, even in Normal View. These page breaks appear as thin black lines & introduce confusion with any borders I have applied. To confirm that this is new behaviour, I wen...

One year later, upgrade Ubuntu from 12.10 to 13.04 & exactly the same problem with LibO - lost all my custom toolbars again!

Has somebody found the solution in the meantime?

Thanks!

I keep digging into this new problem. Another aspect is: If I unmaximize a window (by whatever means), I can then maximize/unmaximize as much as I want with no problem, so long as I don't close the file. If I quit a file with the window unmaximized, then re-open the file within the same session, it ...

Yes, I am familiar with how it should work, after many years of PCs, thanks. But in this particular case it does not work like that. I can maximize the window normally, but when I try to unmaximize it, there is then no way of pulling the window edges. The button icon changes OK to show it is unmaxim...

I have been using OpenOffice then LibreOffice for years in XP & in Ubuntu. Currently I am using LibreOffice 3.6.2.2 in Ubuntu 12.10 with Xfce desktop. Just recently (can't match with anything) I started seeing strange behaviour. When using the Unmaximize button, instead of reducing the window to...

I understand why Calc asks me if I want to extend the range when I try to sort data with only part of it selected & I am happy that should be the default behaviour. But it so happens that I want to sort just parts of my data frequently & I am prepared to take responsability for not making a ...

Thanks, RoryOF, for your reply, but it does not help or reassure me much! Basically, every Ubuntu user gets LibO as standard now & every Ubuntu user (except those sticking with LTS) needs to upgrade Ubuntu every 6 months, presumably with a LibO upgrade each time too. So everybody has to re-do to...

I just upgraded Ubuntu from 11.10 to 12.04 which has taken LibO to 3.5.4.2.

During this upgrade, LibreOffice has lost all the Customizations I had made to all the toolbars.

Is this normal?
Can I find my old settings somewhere?
How can I avoid it happening next time?

Thanks!

I think you checked the "Current document only" box too which modifies the currently edited template. No I didn't, so I wonder which other documents are affected? That's not a problem for me. As soon as you start organizing your own templates, the language setting is one of the many attri...

Which template is indicated on the first tab of File>Properties... File > Properties shows I am using my own template, called 'Verdana 1cm margins'. I tried File > Templates > Edit... & opened that template & Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages > Default Languages for documents ...

My default UI language is English & I want to keep it that way. But for spell-checking, I would like the default to be French. So I tried Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages > Default Languages for documents > Western >>> French (France) > OK. It has the blue check mark. I did not ch...

Actually, I just tried recording a macro without paste-special & that works OK... Method: 1. Select line 2 2. Record macro 3. Ctrl+C 4. Down 5. Ctrl+V 6. Down.. 7. Insert > Rows 8. Stop macro This is the recorded macro & the cell references are OK: sub cvi rem -------------------------------...

Thanks, JohnSUN-Pensioner, for your custom macro! It certainly copies down the last line & keeps the correct cell references. It does not actually do what I need though, which maybe I did not explain clearly enough. I use the "Paste-special, with Shift-cells-Down" method because I have...

I have numerous Calc files where I regularly update data by copy/pasting the last line (of data & derived results) by "Copy - Paste Special - Shift cells - Down" before updating a few cells. Tiring of the repetition, I thought this was a good candidate for recording a tiny Macro & ...

Back in 1999 or so, in XP, I created an Excel spreadsheet for my personal accounts. It soon got to be quite big with over 25 sheets & several macros (but only around 200KB). I use it all the time & branch off a new version every year, keeping the old ones for reference. I have been dual-boot...

Ah - OK! Yes - it probably was a customized toolbar from way back when, but I had forgotten that. I kept looking for the Group/Ungroup buttons in the "Drawing" section (& Google..) but after your post I looked all over & found them in "Formatting". Then I could easily add...

In my current version of LibreOffice Draw (3.4.4) I can no longer find the very useful Drawing Toolbar Buttons for Group/Ungroup/Enter-Group/Exit-Group. I am not quite sure how & when they disappeared, but I still have them in OpenOffice Draw 3.3.0. Have I just missed something, or is it a mista...

Thanks very much, RGB!

In Synaptic, under 'libreoffice-style' I had a choice of Crystal, Tango, Oxygen & Galaxy.
None very brilliant, but I chose Galaxy which seems clearer to me than the others.

Call this [SOLVED] & thanks again!