<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> On 18/10/2011 18:03, Dave Morley wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4E9DB173.9030407@davmor2.co.uk" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 18/10/11 17:57, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 18/10/2011 17:48, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bodsda@googlemail.com">bodsda@googlemail.com</a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Can I suggest that you either file a bug report or dust your programming books off and fix it yourself? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">But it's been like this for years and I think I may well have filed a bug years ago, but it's obviously not even been on Canonicals radar at all... To me it's the one thing that will stop people using Ubuntu and preferring Windows - MS Office does this automatically and so does the version of LO that you can get from the LO website but if the software is supplied as part of the install shouldn't people expect ALL the functions to be there? Why do they miss one of the most important out? Unfortunately I am not a programmer.... </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Mostly because it's nothing to do with canonical, this is an issue with LibreOffice. Have you tried their site for a plugin? </pre> </blockquote> No it's to do with what Canonical DO with LO.<br> If you remove the version of LO (and this was the same with OO as well) and replace it with the version from the LO website then the option to use TBird addressbook as an addressbook source magically becomes available.<br> Canonical cripple some parts of LO - whether deliberately or not I don't know, but it shouldn't happen...<br> <br> <div class="moz-signature">-- <br> <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="LibreOffice 3.4 (Win32)"> <meta name="CREATED" content="0;0"> <meta name="CHANGED" content="20111002;17182741"> <style type="text/css">  </style> <pre class="western">Registered Linux User no 240308 Ubuntu 10.04 (yay!) Windows 7 (unfortunately) Say No to OOXML <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8">http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8</a> I only accept odf or pdf documents </pre> </div> </body> </html>