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I just installed LO3.3 from Ubuntu repo on Ubuntu 10.04. I followed the
instructions at
http://drupal.txwikinger.me.uk/content/libreoffice-now-available-ppa-ubuntu-1010-and-1004#comment-620
Install went fine. I pull up a document in Writer, but can't seem to save it
as a .doc or .docx. However, .odt saves work.
Can you be more precise ? the format doesn't appear in the file format list,
or does it crash when you save ?
Where is the problem?
Can you read a message? Or is the problem in the dialog box?
Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit gives me a drop down screen when I click on
the "file type" arrow under the standard "file/save" option. ODF is
the default world ISO standard now. You also can use
"Tools/Options" to help with some of your default needs. I load
and save .doc files all the time. I prefer to use .odt for my documents,
but I send them off as .doc file to people I work with.
Also, you might want to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 soon. The Update Manager
works that fine and you do not loose your packages or settings. They
are currently working on version 11.10 for release this year [late in the year?].
I can choose from the usual long list of formats, but when I choose .doc
(97/2000/XP) or .docx (2007) the Writer app hangs up. In my Gnome Ubuntu
10.04 that means the app "goes gray" as if it's thinking hard, but it never
recovers. I kill Writer and restart, which gives me the recover option. All
is good with recovery. I try a .odt save and that works. Would like .doc
save, though....
I can choose from the usual long list of formats, but when I choose .doc
(97/2000/XP) or .docx (2007) the Writer app hangs up. In my Gnome Ubuntu
10.04 that means the app "goes gray" as if it's thinking hard, but it never
recovers. I kill Writer and restart, which gives me the recover option. All
is good with recovery. I try a .odt save and that works. Would like .doc
save, though....
I just opened a ODT file and used the save as option. I choose the .doc
file type and added the .doc extension to the file name.
It worked for me. No graying out. I use the current version RC3
on Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit.
Hi Olwe Melwasul 
If you have Ubuntu 10.04 then please stick with it rather than 'upgrading'. The
10.04 is a special release called an "LTS" which means Long Term Support and has
3 years support for the desktop version. We have about 2 years of that left.
You have probably noticed that the first number, the 10 or 11 refers to the
year. The second number refers to the month. So 10.04 was released 2010, April
(well, the end of April) and the next release is due to be the 11.04 in April.
A lot more work goes into the LTS releases and any bug-fixes and updates are
done for them ahead of other releases; ahead of even later releases such as the
10.10 (October 2010).
Regards from
Tom
I think the person was having trouble with the save/save as pop-up window
not showing the file type option by default.
I wonder how up-to-date the PPA is to the LO web site downloads?
Ubuntu used a version of OOo that I was told is Go-oo, and not the
OOo web site's version. So I had to purge the repository version
installed by default and added the OOo deb version. Now I have LO
RC3 as well. OOo seems to be having trouble with a bug or two and
are on RC9.
It will be nice when Ubuntu adds LibreOffice to their repository, like
the promised they would.
Hi Sounds like a bad install somewhere then. Can the problem one be
reinstalled or updated? Perhaps from a different PPA? Which is the recommended
PPA now?
I tend to use the Tools menu to set the default to always use ".doc" although
now that MicroSquish Office 2007 & 2010 can open ".odt" it is less of an issue
except for old Word users. Anyway, to change the defaults ...
Tools - Options - Load/Save - General
Then change the drop-down lists at the bottom by rolling up 1 or 2 places
avoiding the "Template" options. So,
"Text Document" = Word (98/2000/Xp)
"Spreadsheet" = Excel (98/2000/Xp)
"Presentation" = PowerPoint (98/2000/Xp)
One better tactic, that would benefit us, is to use odt and when you email
people your documents give them the LibreOffice download link
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
Does this page cleverly know which operating system you are using? Does it give
the right download for your OS like Firefox & OpenOffice do?
Many regards from
Tom
As I said before, I followed the guide offered at the
http://drupal.txwikinger.me.uk site. Actually, the "sudo apt-get install
aspell aspell-en dictionaries-common hunspell-en-us myspell-en-us" gave me
errors and I don't have spellcheck... but that's another post.
I've tried both choosing the file type from the Gnome save dialog box
drop-down, and I've typed in ...doc at the end of the file name. I've tried
saving to different directories. No dice.
No dice on the changing the default save type either. I started a new Writer
document after changing the Options/Load-Save... and it still freezes up.
Ouch!!
Definitely try to find a better version to install then. Are you installing a
non-US version? Is that possibly why it is working for other people but not
you? If so then we definitely need a bug-report about this!
I don't know how to file a bug-report, can anyone help?
Regards from
Tom
So, what install should I use? Is there a nice, Ubuntu-friendly repo for me
besides the one I'm using?
looks like you may have to do a reinstall of LO, but you also may need
to get rid of the hidden folder ".libreoffice" to get rid of settings issues.
[Places/home and click on view hidden files to see it.]
I get rid of that type of folder for LO or OOo in such cases.
It just may be that you have some problems in that hidden folder
or the install itself if you do not see the needed options or you
gray out when you try to use them.
I just did some experimentation and found that a very short .doc will save
just fine. Then I cut and paste more into it -- and sure enough, at some
point it will not save anymore and goes "gray in the face" and locks up
trying to. The document I was first working with had 30k-plus words, BTW.
How can I uninstall a repo/apt-get install and start over?
apt-get purge <application>
then
apt-get install <application>
Looks like a PPA issue. I've no issue saving a document to .doc with
standard LORC3 install. The document stats are:
198 pages
33 tables
1 graphic
1 OLE
5275 paragraphs
52057 words
336843 characters
Ubuntu 10.04 & 10.10 - 2.4Ghz/3Gb
You may wish to file a launchpad bug or contact the PPA maintainer. BTW:
PPA stands for Personal Package Archive... meaning that only the
person(s) maintaining that archive can help you.
https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa
For questions and bugs with software in this PPA please contact
LibreOffice Packaging.
https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice
https://bugs.launchpad.net/~libreoffice
Were I you, unless you are doing LO testing on Ubuntu; I'd purge that
install, reinstall OOo, and then install LO from the .deb provided at:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/installation/linux/
That way you have both OOo and LO installed and can run in parallel if
you wish.
I can run OO and LO on the same machine?
Yes.
I am running both on my Ubuntu system.
LO3.3.xRC3 is my only 3.3.x version, since OOo [or Go-oo maybe]
is still at 3.2 version.