Re: Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with Installation problem.

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Are you logged in as Administrator? The sufficient access to that key sounds to me like a permissions problem. I take it you already tried to uninstall each version of LibreOffice before installing the other one? It should handle that automatically (i think) so if you haven't don't worry,

[libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Installation problem.

2015-02-06 Thread Urmas
James C Smith: 'Error 1402. Could not open key:HOT_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE32\Software\Classes\ bmp\OpenWithProgIDs. The actual issue is that LO has no business messing with this registry key at all. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/02/15 09:09, Paul wrote: Surely running MSO under Wine on Linux is a valid choice? Not one I would choose, for sure, but a choice that should be on the poll none the less? The idea is to highlight _Linux_ software. By allowing _use x under

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 02/06/2015 04:59 PM, jonathon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/02/15 09:09, Paul wrote: Surely running MSO under Wine on Linux is a valid choice? Not one I would choose, for sure, but a choice that should be on the poll none the less? The idea is to highlight

[libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Installation problem.

2015-02-06 Thread V Stuart Foote
Urmas D. wrote 'Error 1402. Could not open key:HOT_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE32\Software\Classes\ bmp\OpenWithProgIDs. The actual issue is that LO has no business messing with this registry key at all. Actually the correct registry key would be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem2: On opening, LO is trying to fix a file that does not exist

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yup, you would probably be surprised how many of us did the same thing at first. It's kinda cute that it tries to help but at the same time it can sometimes be very annoying. Congrats and regards from Tom :) On 5 February 2015 at 23:38, MySpam mys...@americansentry.net wrote: I thought

Re: [libreoffice-users] LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 A huge congrats to everyone involved in making LibreOffice what it is today Many regards from Tom :) On 5 February 2015 at 21:09, Robinson Tryon bishop.robin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Grabbing over 86% of the vote, LibreOffice was announced to be the winner of the 'Office Suite

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Graham Luffrum
Urmas, I obviously missed the announcement that MS have a version of Office for Linux. Can you please provide the link. G. On 6 February 2015 at 06:04, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote: Robinson Tryon: Grabbing over 86% of the vote, LibreOffice was announced to be the winner of the 'Office

Re: [libreoffice-users] Need help with hierarchy document templates

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There was a recent post from someone else telling us of 2 hierarchical or tree-like file-management systems. When i say recent i mean within the last week Regards from Tom :) On 5 February 2015 at 17:42, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 17:52 05/02/2015 +0100, Sven

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO (writer, esp.) and alternative keyboard layouts

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Blimey that is really difficult to read! Any chance of breaking it down into shorter paragraphs with a bigger gap between paragraph? Regards from Tom :) On 6 February 2015 at 10:11, Gary Collins gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi,I've been having some trouble lately using in Writer

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO (writer, esp.) and alternative keyboard layouts

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yesss!! That is much better! :)) I got so fed up with Yahoo messing things up that i set-up a GMail account and got it to pull in all my new and old emails. It took a lot of getting used to but eventually i figured it out enough and now it saves me TONS of time. Sadly GMail also messes

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Paul
While at first glance this seems like an obvious troll, after thinking a bit I feel that there may be something to what Urmas said, though I would hardly call the poll invalid for the omission. As far as I know, Microsoft Office runs fine under Wine (please correct me if I'm wrong), and the Wine

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Perhaps. It might be good to suggest it to the organisers for next year's poll. Certainly Skype was included, so why not? Unlike with Skype i suspect that the majority vote would still go to LibreOffice anyway. Our community is stronger and pulls together better. People have often

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO (writer, esp.) and alternative keyboard layouts

2015-02-06 Thread Gary Collins
I'll try; it was not like that when I sent it, that's what yahoo did to it :-(See if below is any better; unfortunately I can't seem to get many font options :-(/G.     Hi :) Blimey that is really difficult to read!  Any chance of breaking it down into shorter paragraphs with a bigger gap

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Paul
Out of interest Italo, why would you say the Wine option is not comparable to a native binary? The Wine people seem to want to change that perception, and although I share it, I can't quite say why, other than it a) feels wrong (which doesn't really have any technical basis), and b) might be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 06/02/15 12:25, Paul wrote: Out of interest Italo, why would you say the Wine option is not comparable to a native binary? Because it allows to run proprietary software for a proprietary operating system, which is something I would definitely avoid in a Linux environment. -- Italo Vignoli

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 06/02/15 10:34, Tom Davies wrote: Perhaps. It might be good to suggest it to the organisers for next year's poll. Certainly Skype was included, so why not? Unlike with Skype i suspect that the majority vote would still go to LibreOffice anyway. Our community is stronger and pulls

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 06/02/15 06:04, Urmas wrote: Any poll without Microsoft Office option is invalid. Is Microsoft Office available for Linux? I do not think so. The poll is run by LinuxQuestions, so Microsoft Office advocates can just avoid to have a look and rest in peace. -- Italo Vignoli - The Document

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yes it does feel badly wrong and kinda makes my skin crawl. Also i am fairly sure that various parts of MS Office wont work properly - for example Sharepoint, One Note, Outlook, Access and other things are quite often troublesome even on Windows and some block such things as having 2

[libreoffice-users] Writer: when ruler stops working

2015-02-06 Thread Gary Collins
Hi,I was using Writer yesterday, I can't recall every step that led up to this, but I had a line with a tab in it, and went to the ruler to set the tab stop, but the ruler was unresponsive, I couldn't add a tab stop to it.Double clicking on it opened a dialog where, under one of the tabs, I was

[libreoffice-users] LO (writer, esp.) and alternative keyboard layouts

2015-02-06 Thread Gary Collins
Hi,I've been having some trouble lately using in Writer especially when using alternative keyboard mappings (Windows 7). Yesterday, for example, I was using a mapping that was basically English but which included macron vowels (that's vowels with a bar over the top, used, e.g., to indicate a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Paul
Of course, that said, reading a bit further into the posts on the poll seems to indicate that they specifically didn't include Wine + MSO because they wanted only linux native options, otherwise the field was just too big. Which is fine, but then it changes the question from What is the most used

Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with Installation problem.

2015-02-06 Thread James C Smith
Hi everybody Sorry about the attachment problem. Here is what the message said: 'Error 1402. Could not open key:HOT_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE32\Software\Classes\ bmp\OpenWithProgIDs. Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel.' I hope that you can assist.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with Installation problem.

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Attachments are stripped off emails to the list. You can upload it to a Cloud storage place (such as google drive (or whatever it's called now) and then give us the link to the document. If you can find Nabble and figure it out that is a good place to store the document online. So i'm not

[libreoffice-users] Has anyone tried LO 4.3.x or 4.4.0 on the new Raspberry PI 2?

2015-02-06 Thread Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I was wondering if anyone on this list has bought the new Raspberry PI 2 mini-computer. I was thinking that with the much better specs, I wonder how well the newest version of LibreOffice will work on the new machine. Now that RPi2 has a quad core and 1GB of ram, it should be much better

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Paul
On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:46:05 +0100 Italo Vignoli it...@libreoffice.org wrote: On 06/02/15 12:25, Paul wrote: Out of interest Italo, why would you say the Wine option is not comparable to a native binary? Because it allows to run proprietary software for a proprietary operating system,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 2/6/2015 4:09 AM, Paul wrote: While at first glance this seems like an obvious troll, after thinking a bit I feel that there may be something to what Urmas said, though I would hardly call the poll invalid for the omission. As far as I know, Microsoft Office runs fine under Wine (please

[libreoffice-users] Help with Installation problem.

2015-02-06 Thread James C Smith
Hi I have been using LibreOffice for some considerable time now. The version I was using was LibreOffice 4.3.5., and I was informed that there was an update to LibreOffice 4.4.0., so I commenced the update. Part way through, I receive an error message (see attachment), and it then rolled back the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 I agree that it is a really bad idea to run proprietary programs on Linux but i would widen it and say that it's a bad idea to run them anywhere. However, I don't think there is a significant increase in how bad it would be on Linux. Of course part of the whole advantage of running