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Brilliant suggestion, Tom. Many thanks for this advice. I will do this on
all 3 of my machines, all running different OS - XP-Home, Vista 64, Vista
32 Business.
I'm sure to report back once I have done this and tested the result.
....; in LO, the check box is labeled" Use LibreOffice dialogs.
Let me say one more time: That does not appear with the LO 3.4.5.
installed HERE.
If you say it appears in yours, then I accept that, but it doesn't
appear in MY LO 3.4.5 (but does in OpenOffice).
Hi 
Make sure you rename the current profile jic something weird goes wrong!!
Regards from
Tom
I save all my hidden "dot" folders, like .libreoffice and .mozilla, every month or so, and before I update LibreOffice to the next one. This is for Ubuntu, but can be done with Windows versions of these folders as well.
Actually you should do this for your Mozilla [Firefox and Thunderbird] user info folders so you can save all you browser setting/site-password/bookmarks/etc and your email account info, address book, and non-deleted emails. This will/could save you a lot of trouble down the line.
Any time you do some "fixing" for LO or OOo, you need to save the current user info/account/etc. folders BEFORE you do the work. This way if things go very wrong, you can go back to the original user info to try again. Actually I find removing the .libreoffice for Ubuntu [by renaming] or equivalent in other OSs, and then opening LO, it views it as a first time use after a clean install. This does "fix" a lot of pesky things that creep up from time to time, like printer issues.
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Howdy Maurice,
hmmm - just installed 3.4.5 (Ubuntu 11.04 AMD64) the option is there.
Which platform are you on again?
Thanks,
//drew
Mandriva 2010.2 32-bit PowerPack, KDE.
LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1 (Build:502) (En-GB)
Yes. Mine is 3.4.5 from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ - deb files.
LibreOffice 3.4.5
OOO340m1 (Build:502)
Where did you get yours from?
Screenshot here:
<http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/12/screenshotoptionslibreo.png/>
Hi Maurice,
Maurice Batey wrote (20-01-12 16:44)
Are we all using the same version of LO (mine's 3.4.5)?!
I send you a screenprint (in the cc mail) 3.4.5
Interested in yours
Maurice Batey wrote (20-01-12 16:51)
The first time you install LibreOffice with an OOo user profile, that
will be (mostly) imported.Yesterday, I installed LO 3.4.5 on another PC here (to replace Open
Office).What option in the install mechanism would have caused it to have
been installed "with an OOo user profile", Cor?
Apologies - I should have written " when there is a OOo user profile on
your system, "
Maurice Batey wrote (20-01-12 20:17)
Hmm, might well be related to KDE or your distribution
But there *was*!
I can't begin to imagine how the missing option could be due to using
KDE, but of course as I use the 'Mandriva' download file there is
always the possiblity that somehow the Mandriva download has a fault in
it.
I shall enquire in the Mandriva newsgroup.
Installed on 2 PC's here (both running Mandriva 2010.2.
Neither shows that "Open/Save" option.
Am 21.01.2012 18:47, Maurice Batey wrote:
might well be related to KDE or your distribution
I can't begin to imagine how the missing option could be due to using
KDE, but of course as I use the 'Mandriva' download file there is
always the possiblity that somehow the Mandriva download has a fault in
it.
I shall enquire in the Mandriva newsgroup.
Well, they don't call it "fault". They call it "desktop integration".
I'd file a bug report. It sounds as if the Mandriva builds are missing
that option while other debian based distro's do.
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
or easier:
https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/
Still awaiting news of what other LO users on Mandriva report.
There is some interesting discussion on the option here:
Perhaps the Mandriva LO RPM omits it if the user has KDE?
Or could it be that some LO 'Open/Save' files are missing, so LO omits the
option?
Hi
If it's the Mandriva builds then would it be best to file against Mandriva?
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mandriva
It seems weird they removed the option. Perhaps they put it somewhere else, hopefully close by?
DistroWatch is a good place to compare different distros and to get useful links.
https://qa.mandriva.com/
I didn't want to create an account there because i don't use Mandriva but even so i was able to do a search for "LibreOffice".
https://qa.mandriva.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=open&product=&content=LibreOffice
Only 26 results and didn't seem to include the one in this thread.
Apparently Mageia is a a drop-in replacement for Mandriva and neatly avoids the constant political turmoil, uncertainties and struggles that Mandriva manages to pull itself through. Both are beautiful distros well worth trying.
Regards from
Tom
Hi
That tiny url link took me to an openSUSE forum. Most distros do work in very much the same way as each other so it's quite valid to do that but generally it's best to stick to the dedicated forum. For Mandriva the official forum (i got this from the DistroWatch site) is
http://forum.mandriva.com/en/
Mageia is very close to Mandriva so asking at
https://forums.mageia.org/
might be good too.
There are general forums that tend to have sections for each different major distro. I found this was the best although i didn't try many as i got good answers fast enough from
http://www.linuxquestions.org
Even questions about distros that it doesn't seem to officially support do get answers.
Regards from
Tom