Re: [libreoffice-users] New User: Three Questions

Hello Rich, 

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:09:40 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

>    Yesterday I replaced OO.o with LO (-3.3.3) after using the former for more
> than a decade. I have three questions for which I have not been able to find
> answers:
>
>    1.) When LO is invoked it displays a box of icons in the middle of the
> application window. Where do I change the start up option so I see either a
> blank window or a new writer document instead of this icon box?

The box is the default when you open LibreOffice. If you want to start directly with writer, you 
can: 
- start from a terminal with "swriter" (without the quotes)
- start from a menu entry, in my Linux box it is under "Office > LibreOffice Writer"
- double click an existing document. 

>    2.) I have many typefaces/fonts installed in /usr/share/fonts/ and the 18
> subdirectries below that. All of them were available in OO.o (and my other
> applicatons), but not in LO. What do I do to make all these fonts available
> for use?

If you have them installed using the OS tools, then they should be available for use with LibO as 
well. I don't know, what you can try now. But maybe someone else has an idea. 

>    3.) Does LO Calc have the ability to do date and time math? Specifically,
> I'm recording time spent by a contractor on a project (start time and finish
> time) and would like to calculate the number of hours between the two times.
> Apparently it is not sufficient to subtract the value in the start time cell
> from the value in the finish time cell. Perhaps I'm using a time format that
> does not allow subtraction (e.g., 1:00.00 PM)?

Yes, Calc has this ability. The time format should not matter. Can you check the format of your 
cells with the times? Or better, the cells, that will contain your results. 
The format code should look like this: 
[HH]:MM:SS 
The square brackets around the HH indicate, that you can get more than 24 hours in total. 
Subtracting the start time from the end time should be sufficient. 

Hope this helps. 

Sigrid

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