Brilliant - well your reply is Gordon - but as to W 8.1: I'm bereft of suitable words!
On 28 January 2015 at 16:40, Gordon Burgess-Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28/01/15 15:43, Philip Jordan wrote: > >> Thanks >> >> & though I'll do what you say, it must be emphasized that as far as I can >> tell >> >> more than once, I downloaded from the site you show on Sunday >> & I did this as the link from Computer active didn't work >> & too, I only went to Microsoft for an Icon as my laptop >> refused to install the software by which I mean let me use it >> & your website wasn't very clear on what to do in that regard >> >> Anyway I now see you've sent another email, >> so I won't re-download till I've read that >> >> >> When I tried that, the IE downloader on Windows 8.1 changed the file > extension to .man - which of course won't run. > You need to change the file extension back to .msi, and to do THAT, you > need to go into File explorer and turn ON the "show file extensions" > option, because for some reason that I cannot fathom, Windows has that > option turned OF by default. > > Good luck! > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > 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 > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] 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
