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. -------------------- * Ian D. Samson <http://www.lp2cd.za.net/index.htm>* On 20 January 2012 18:15, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi :) > Just copy&paste or rename the OOo UserProfile from > ... openoffice.org/ ... > to > ... libreoffice/ ... > > You can even copy the user profile to different machines running different > operating systems. > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfiles > All your settings and Extensions and galleries and stuff is stored inside > your user-profile. Note that if you have other OpenSOurce programs then > their settings are stored in the same folder so you will see things like > ... firefox/ ... > ... libreoffice/ ... > ... thunderbird/ ... > Well, after switching your file-browser to show hidden files&folders you > will see them. > Regards from > Tom :) > > --- On Fri, 20/1/12, Ian Samson <iansams...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: Ian Samson <iansams...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Re: How to migrate OpenOfficec > Writer settings into LinbreOffice Writer > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Date: Friday, 20 January, 2012, 15:59 > > That would be nice. I wonder if there's a settings file hidden somewhere in > OO that we could simply locate and copy across to LO (appropriate folder) > and voila, it's done! Of course, BEFORE one uninstalls OpenOffice. > > > 2012/1/20 Maurice Batey <maur...@bcs.org.uk> > > > On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:09:16 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote: > > > > > 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? > > > > It certainly didn't pick up the user's OO templates. > > -- > > /\/\aurice > > > > > > > > -- > > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: > users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > > Problems? > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > > > > > > -- > > -------------------- > * Ian D. Samson <http://www.lp2cd.za.net/index.htm>* > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
