** Reply to message from Sigrid Carrera <[email protected]> on Fri, 4 Feb 2011 10:23:24 +0100
> Hi, > > Cliff, you "hijacked" a thread (meaning replying to an email and only > changing the subject). Please ask new questions in a new thread (by composing > a new message and not replying). > > Your email appears in a different thread in my mail client. So you might get > less responses to your question. > > Thanks. > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:52:15 -0600 > "Cliff Scott" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Greetings everyone, > > > > I've used OOo for a number of years. Today I installed LibreOffice to see > > how > > it did. So far so good, but one glitch that maybe someone can help me with. > > > > After the install on WinXP I ran the Help files installer supposedly > > successfully. My problem is that I cannot for the life of me figure out how > > to get the offline help to work. F1 or the Help menu always brings up the > > online help. I am not always connected to the Internet so getting the > > offline > > help working is important to me. I've spent quite a bit of time searching > > for > > answers online, but with no joy. Have I just overlooked something simple? > > Thanks for any help anyone can give. > > Which version did you install? Did you also install the corresponding > language pack? If I remember correctly, you have to install > > 1. software package > 2. language package > 3. help package > > In this order. > > I agree, that this is unfortunate. I don't know, if this is well explained on > the download page or not. If not, it should be added there, so that the user > doesn't get a "surprise" of a not working local help. Thanks for our response Sigrid. I did indeed hijack a thread not knowing it would make any difference at all. I'll take your suggestion regarding starting a new thread in the future. I downloaded and installed the LibreOffice 3.3 US English Multi version, i.e. not the universal one will all the other languages. I started LO then realized that the help went online and remembered that I had to install the help package. I closed LO installed the help package and tried again, but it still goes directly to the online help. I even restarted the computer. Finally I ran the setup from the help directory and told it to check everything which it did, but still no help. I wonder if the problem was running LO before installing help. Maybe I should uninstall everything and reinstall and see if it helps. Cliff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
