LibreOffice Calc: Reset positions of split dividers
To reset the position of split dividers, drag all the dividers out of the screen. Then turn off splitting and turn it on again.
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LibreOffice Calc: How to paste cells without overwriting other cells
The default behavior of Calc is that when you paste cells from the clipboard, it overwrites whatever cells occupy the same space on the spreadsheet. If you would like to insert the cells in the clipboard instead by pushing the existing cells to ...
Move page breaks in LibreOffice Calc
- You can define what will be printed by checking View -> Preview Page Breaks and then moving around the blue borders.
- You can now define the size of the printed content under Format -> Page -> Sheet -> Scale. You can choose between three sc...
Upgrade to LibreOffice 5.x on Ubuntu
Getting rid of your old LibreOffice
Remove your old LibreOffice:
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice*
You probably also want to get rid of the dead PPAs you might have installed for LibreOffice 4.x:
- Op...
LibreOffice won't embed most fonts into PDFs (with fix)
- LibreOffice Impress, Writer, etc. doesn't embed most fonts into the PDFs it generates.
- This means if you share a slide show with a font that is not Arial...
The challenging setup of an offshore project
After managing a few agile projects from India and learning the tricks of the trade, I have been wondering why life is much easier when you are working closely with the client as compared to working offshore. What worried me more was that I had to...
How to find and replace empty cells in Libre Office Calc
To find and replace (CTRL + H
) empty cells in Libre Office Calc you can use a regular expressions (also called "Finds an empty paragraph"
in context of a spreadsheet):
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Heads up: LibreOffice Calc AutoCorrect will change characters when pasting multi-line text
If you paste multiple lines of text into a cell, Calc's AutoCorrect will change the first character of the last line to uppercase:
foo => foo
bar bar
baz Baz
To fix this, go to Tools / AutoCorrect Options, choose the *O...
LibreOffice / Excel: Use tables like a hash map in formulas with VLOOKUP
If you're a frequent user of LibreOffice, I strongly recommend to checkout out the VLOOKUP
function (SVERWEIS
in German). It allows you to treat a column pair as a hash map, where ...
Git: Splitting up changes into several commits
Splitting up commits makes the process of reviewing often easier, since you can create several merge requests or review every commit one by one.
So when you find out that you have portions of the code that you initially didn't intend to change o...
Ruby: How to keep split delimiter (separate, or as part of substrings)
Ruby's String#split
returns an array of substrings from the given string. Usually, this is missing the split characters:
>> 'user@example.com'.split('@')
=> ["user", "example.com"]
If you want to join those parts later on, you migh...