built-in help - how to activate it

users
#1

Hi,

I just downloaded the 3.6.3 built-in help and installed it but when I press F1 or help button I still go to the browser/wiki help which I really don't like.

Any tip what else one needs to do besides installing it to get Windows style help file - which I assume is what is installed by the built-in help.

Thanks for any tips
Werner

#2

Hi,

I had the same problem. If I remember right you need to make sure that the
languages set up in Tools - Options - Language settings - Languages match
the language of the Help file that you installed.

G.

#3

Tried this but..

I got the installer: Windows, version 3.6.3, English (GB) and the corresponding built-in help.

In the "User interface" setting I can only select "English USA" or "French France", not that my Windows version is a French one.

Any other tips, or do I have to install a "English USA" version to get "close" to what I like to have.

Werner

#4

Werner,

I also have LO 3.6.3 (under Windows 7) which I set up using the installer
and help files for English UK, but unlike you I have English UK as one of
the possibilities for the "User interface". (If I change the User
interface to English US I get the problem you are encountering.) I know
it's a pain, but I suggest that you remove LO from your computer and also
delete the LO user profile. To do the latter see

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile

Then reinstall LO making sure that both files are English UK and that you
do so in the right order, i.e. the Help file last.

G.

#5

Hi Graham,

Finally got it after about 3 de/install cycles.

During the installation I have to select English and French, just English isn't good enough:(.

After that I can select English in the language settings and then the built-in help is working.

Thanks for getting me going
Werner

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
Congrats!!  It really shouldn't be that tough so it's good to hear you did battle through it and win.  Hopefully next time it 'should' be much, much easier [crosses fingers]

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

Hi :slight_smile:
Congrats!! It really shouldn't be that tough so it's good to hear you did battle through it and win. Hopefully next time it 'should' be much, much easier [crosses fingers]

Would have been nice(:, installed 4.0.2 and I am back with help only via the web.

Currently I don't have the time nor energy to go through I don't know how many de/install cycles.

Installing help should be a very easy task and not this kind of jumping through .....

Best regards
Werner

P.S.
I like LO but this is really a frustrating issue to have to go through each time!

#8

Hi :slight_smile:
This time just get the published guides.  They are only in English because translators mainly work on translating the inbuilt help.  It's about the first time i have seen any Pdfs that do allow you to click headings in the Table-of-Contents and internally in order to jump straight to the right place.

Free from here
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications

The French part of the wiki has a good Faq that hasn't been translated into English yet.  I'm not sure if you can download it and keep as a local copy.

Apols and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#9

Hi :slight_smile:
This time just get the published guides. They are only in English because translators mainly work on translating the inbuilt help. It's about the first time i have seen any Pdfs that do allow you to click headings in the Table-of-Contents and internally in order to jump straight to the right place.

I install an English version of LO and an English version of LO help and when I press F1 I would like it to open help locally and jump to the appropriate section. That I do all this on a French OS shouldn't matter to LO, at least in my view:).

Opening a PDF and then jumping to the section is great, but it is a work around and not a final solution.

Werner

#10

Hi :slight_smile:
The in-built help is primarily maintained by the devs so it might be worth posting a bug-report about it
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport

done: Bug 63637

Werner

P.S.
Are you aware that you respond to list AND email - not really needed no?