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#61

This is the largest list of dictionaries on one page . . over 180 the last I counted, and I stopped counting months ago.

http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/dictionary.html#english

The ones that start with "kpp" are the ones I created.

Download the .oxt file[s] you want and use the Extension Manager to install it. The largest American dictionary/thesaurus has over 773,000 words in it.

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As for Calligra - the web site talks about it being part of the "KDE community"

But it might now be as easy as you like to get it, according to the way I read the text below.

"Therefore you can download and install Calligra Suite in most cases free of charge. While the Calligra project only provides source code, it is easily installable through the package manager of many linux distributions, FreeBSD. There is also preliminary support on Mac OS X and Windows."

I wonder how much of it is based on the old OOo coding.

#62

Ok now what the crap; why are abiword documents being saved as adobi docs how do i fix that can t get anything right crap .   -  later

#63

Am 14.10.2012 10:10, Lostsoul wrote:

     Ok now what the crap; why are abiword documents being saved as adobi docs how do i fix that can t get anything right crap . - later

I strongly recommend some computer crash curse. File name associations
are free. There is nothing hard wired to the system. You can open any
file with any program you want. You can tell your desktop environment
which programs can open which types of files and which single program is
the preferred one to be used on double-click.
First of all, any user who is forced to use MS Windows should turn off
the option to hide known file name extensions. Since Windows '95 this is
the major obstacle which prevents people from understanding their system.

#64

Haha very funny that know one can tell me why word problems hate windows 7 never had any word programs hate vista so explain if you dare; you'd be the first why the word programs hate win 7 and why no one but no one has a fix; this i got to hear.
 
How do i turn off file extensions in windows 7 64 bit   -  later . .

#65

Haha very funny that know one can tell me why word problems hate windows 7

I think people have explained that 'word problems', that is, word-processors, do not hate Windows 7. unless I'm misremembering, several have indicated they are running Libreoffice in particular on Windows 7 without any issues. and a couple have had issues like yourself.

this is par for the course - some have problems, some don't.

why _you_ in particular are having trouble may relate in part to Andreas's suggestion that you do a 'crash course' (he wrote 'crash curse' but maybe that's freudian <g>).

but if you want a serious answer, you need to follow normal etiquette and protocol and ask a serious question.

and note that it's sometimes a lot harder to pose a serious question about computers than it is to answer it. sometimes your question has to provide a careful understandable description of the problem (and best one problem at a time).

never had any word programs hate vista so explain if you dare; you'd be the first why the word programs hate win 7 and why no one but no one has a fix; this i got to hear.   How do i turn off file extensions in windows 7 64 bit

that's easy to google. remember this forum is about Libreoffice? just look it up on google, you don't need to fuss with the '64 bit' part.

for that matter, if you are having trouble with abiword, you also should google or find a forum addressing that. (I don't use abiword but I assume you do a 'save as' or 'export to' to get a Word document out of it but best look it up and not rely on someone's guess.)

I strongly back Andreas's idea that you get some help from someone nearby or take a curse or something like that.

    -  later . .

F.

#66

Hi :slight_smile:
To "get back to factory defaults" and 'switch off' all Extensions just rename your User Profile.  Larry gave a link to help with that.  Here is another link that will one day be merged with the one Larry gave
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile

Factory defaults are possibly a bit less tweaked than whatever you had installed so it may look a little different and may remove some weirdnesses.  It's a good thing to try whenever you find weird things going on.  It usually beats a reinstall assuming you have now installed a proper version of LO.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#67

hum ok amazing how you say everything is mis set in windows never had a problem with vista so that begs the question why do libre and win 7 hate each other it should work like a snap dang it but doesn t .
 
Think i spotted something about spell check needing a red wavey line underlining words and how the lines aren t saved so no mis spelled words get corrected but posted to that hopefully someone will answer to that.       And the spelling check doesn t follow the blinking curser always starts at the being skipping mis spelled words can t figure that out yet.
 
Using 3.5.6.6  but will try 3.5.4  -  later

#68

Did you reset your user profile as was suggested? That is a common fix for spell checking not working.

#69

Amazing how win 7 has to be re set shouldn t have to be dang it;  will try once i figure out the geekie hard to follow instructions  -  later . . .

#70

A simple solution is to always use 'save as' rather than 'save' -
           then you merely choose the desired suffix as well as the desired
folder;
       with 'save', the computer does its own thing :wink:

Am 14.10.2012 10:10, Lostsoul wrote:

#71

Ok will try that but can i get a save doc switched over to save as and then choose a better format or maybe i ll try all saved as formats ? ?

#72

yes, I agree.

       AND I could send him a step-by-step process
          BUT I was turned off by his foul language;
       if he asks again - and nicely - I'll respond to him.

#73

When you save the document, click on 'save as' rather than 'save' -
          when you see the boxes come up, choose the suffix desired, then
choose the folder desired; simple.

     Ok will try that but can i get a save doc switched over to save as and

#74

Ok trying saved  as but i see 6 choices so wondering whats the difference and which is better and does libre like one format above all ?
 
      RTF /  Text ? Html /  MHT /  WPt  and   WPS  . . .

#75

Well observed and expressed.

I am sometimes wondering why people do not communicate about facts with words not causing bad feelings at others.

Thus I can understand anne-ology's words "if he asks again - and nicely - I'll respond to him. "

A nice for all.

#76

This is getting silly so explain what bad feelings ? ?

#77

This is getting silly so explain what bad feelings ? ?

#78

Ok whats going on now when i move my mouse about a blank page i get 5 lines to the right of the i line which is the pointer hope that makes sense; how do i end that ?

#79

Hi :slight_smile:
Did you uninstall all versions of 'LO' that you got from "some freeware site" and do an antivirus scan?  Did you download the 3.5.6 or 3.6.something LO from the official site and install as advised?

Is there any chance of giving us a screen-shot?

Also, just out of curiosity, have you used Win7 on any machine other than your own?  Has anyone else used your machine that might have some familiarity with Win7 when it's properly installed?  Did you install Win7 or was it already on the machine when you bought it?

Btw Abiword can save files in MS formats but you have to do
File - "Save As ..."
You can't set it to default to MS formats.  I tried nagging them about it but gave up.  The native format it uses is the OpenDocument Format, same as LO, same as almost every other word-processing program except MS and even they purport to support it as a non-native format.  So, people using MS Office 'should' be able to open your documents created in AbiWord.  I did mention all this when i made some suggestions about what other free word-processors were out there although not in as much detail.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#80

Not using libre from free sites because they are 28 or 125 mb in size so i deleted those now using the full version 220 mb version  3.6.6. but thinking of trying 3.5.4 since some think that s the best version to try with windows 7 but trying abiword and I B M lotus and
Kingsoft  maybe they won t throw fits at windows 7 so no hurry to reset w7; libre needs fixing not windows 7 .
 
Windows 7 came with the lap top; when i use save as i have 7 choices so which is the best to use; save as with libre and can i get a save doc format switched over to saved as; and would libre stop having win7 fits i wonder .
 
And a screen shot of what ? ?   Whew  later .  .  .