Re: [libreoffice-users] I just downloaded Libre Office last night, and I have a couple of questions.

But not if anchored as character.

On 2015-11-18 04:25, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> Which version of Windows do you have?
> I constantly got that "permission" issue with Vista and upgraded to 
> Win7.  Now all my Windows systems run Win10.  I have not had any 
> "permission" issues since upgrading to Win7, except for trying to 
> install older packages that were made during Win XP days and not 
> updated for the newer OSs.
>
> As for the "space bar" issue, I get around this by either using two 
> methods.  1 - make sure the image/object is anchored to the page and 
> not a character.  2 - define the size of the space by changing the 
> font size.  If you need to move the object a quarter of the space bar 
> with, make that "space" size the size you need by entering the 
> specific quarter font size in the font size "toolbox" window, i.e. 
> normal is 12, then place 3.0 in the font size "box". I usually type in 
> the sizes got larger than the 96 point.  I just tried typing in the 3 
> point size for my default font and it works fine.  In theory you can 
> type in 3.5 or 6.3.
>
> As for the cost of MS Office, I dumped MS Office back in the 2002/2003 
> version days.  Once OpenOffice read/wrote .doc files, I stopped using 
> MS for most things.  Once LibreOffice came out, I dumped OpenOffice.
>
> I went to open source packages due to their "cost".  Since there were 
> a number of packages I needed that I could not find for Windows, I 
> looked at Linux.  Linux had what I needed.  I have been using 
> Ubuntu-based Linux as my default system[s] since Feb. 2010, but had at 
> least one Linux system running since 2005 or 2006.
>
>
>
>
> On 11/15/2015 04:52 PM, Susan Mason wrote:
> > I have had Libre Office before, but not this newest version. For the 
> > most part, I like it. There are some things about it which are better 
> > than Open Office, and some things which appear identical to Open Office.
> > One of my questions, involves an issue I encountered last night with 
> > administrator permissions. This is strictly a one person computer, 
> > and I AM the administrator, and I actually resent it when my computer 
> > tells me that I do not have permission to do anything on my own 
> > computer. It once made me so mad, on a different computer...that I 
> > spent hours trying to fix all the permissions, and ended up having to 
> > re-install windows, because I screwed it up so badly. I thought that 
> > I had myself designated as the administrator on this computer...but 
> > it seems that I am only listed as computer user with special 
> > permissions. The program would not even let me update it.
> > My other question is...how can I reset the distance that objects will 
> > move when I press the space bar? I have the same problem with Open 
> > office. The space bar moves objects much too far. I want them to move 
> > at the tiniest possible increments for the utmost precision. I have 
> > used both MS-Word, and MS-Publisher for many years, and both these 
> > programs gave me this level of precision--but I currently have no 
> > copy of either, and can't afford them, either. I am NOT a Bill Gates 
> > fan, in any way, shape, or form...but I am used to working with word 
> > and Publisher, and I know how to make them do exactly what I want 
> > them to do. I know of no open source equivalent for Publisher...but, 
> > I wish I could find one. I also know of no open source program which 
> > will even open my old Publisher files. I wish I could find that, as 
> > well.
> >
> > I am also an avid believer in open source, and I really appreciate 
> > the existence of open source software...so there has to be a way to 
> > make this adjustment. I need more precise control over the spacing 
> > and placement of objects that I insert into my documents.  Susan Hope 
> > Mason
> >
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