how to stop text resizing with window

users
#1

I just imported and opened a CSV file into calc. When I resize the
window, instead of being able to see more columns, the text displayed in
the cells increases in size and I see exactly the same columns. I've
never seen this happen before. How/why did it happen and how do I make
it keep the font size constant and show me more columns? Looking in the
help and searching the web haven't helped me.

TIA, Dave

#2

Strange behavior, never seen that.

Which version of LibreOffice do you use?
On which Platform/Operating System?

Do you have any Accessibility helpers installed?

Regards,
Nino

#3

> I just imported and opened a CSV file into calc. When I resize the
> window, instead of being able to see more columns, the text displayed in
> the cells increases in size and I see exactly the same columns. I've
> never seen this happen before. How/why did it happen and how do I make
> it keep the font size constant and show me more columns? Looking in the
> help and searching the web haven't helped me.

Strange behavior, never seen that.

Which version of LibreOffice do you use?
On which Platform/Operating System?

This is LibreOffice 3.4.2 OOO340m1 (Build:1206)

openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64)

Linux piglet 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-12-13 11:13:53
+0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Yes, I know it's all rather old.

Do you have any Accessibility helpers installed?

Not that I'm aware of.

Other calc windows that I have open are behaving normally. If I open
other .ods files they are fine, if I open other .csv files they behave
weirdly.

Cheers, Dave

#4

Yepp.

Did you try a newer version?

I don't know if this problem is caused by LibreOffice itself or by the
underlying window manager (or by a bad interaction between the two), but
it's always worth testing a newer LibreOffice version. I'd prefer a
Vanilla version from www.libreoffice.org to a distribution's version,
because the latter in most cases has been slightly modified.

The closest bug description I found is
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68168
which happens to be also occuring on Linux.

And the CSV files, do they happen to be huge?

Regards,
Nino

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
I tend to think that it's worth starting off with the one from the repos because it's easier because it's already there.  However, if there is the slightest problem then getting the "upstream" one from the official LO website makes sense.  Also good to get the upstream one when a new version is released although i tend to do that once per branch and even skip entire branches completely quite often.

"If it works.  Use it.", an ancient Chinese proverb, according to Ensign Harry Kim
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
Sorry, ignore my last post!

I really meant to just suggest renaming the User Profile and see if that helped
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile

It's usually the quickest and easiest thing to check when weird things start happening in LibreOffice so it's a good first thing to try while waiting for answers from this mailing list.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: