Re: [libreoffice-users] How to use the command /msoreg=1 ?

Hi :)
Ahah, i have just found these links
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/system-requirements/
I'm guessing that's the guide you used?  It's definitely official and definitely 
for LibreOffice but it doesn't give a lot of detail.

Jonny, it is to register all the various office formats that would 'normally' be 
opened by MS Office to be opened by LibreOffice instead.  


Normally when people install LibreOffice the final screen (the one with the 
"Finish" button rather than "Next" or "Forwards") has a tick-box to make 
LibreOffice the default Office Suite.  Generally i avoid that at first to allow 
people to continue using MS Office by default and just get used to LibreOffice 
at their own pace.  


Sobriquet an easier way to achieve the same result might be to try reinstalling 
LibreOffice but choose the "Repair" option instead of the full re-install.  
Hopefully the last screen will show those tick-boxes again.  


These links might provide more help with the route you are taking

http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/installation/windows/
and other official documentation is here
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12918
It's an old guide and for OpenOffice.org but most things like that still work 
for LibreOffice because both Suites are very similar and we work together quite 
a bit sometimes.  The LibreOffice code is smaller, cleaner and faster and has 
quite a lot of extra functionality and it's developing faster but still most of 
the basics are the same for both.  Also although there is not a special section 
for Win7 the Vista and Xp guidance might help.  


This un-offical blog might help understand (i haven't read it yet so i don't 
know how good it is)
http://minimumsystemrequirements.net/libreoffice.html
If you do have to get java try to get their _20, _21 or _22 version, preferably 
the _21.  The newer _24 & _26 re great for web-browsers but really slow 
LibreOffice down quite badly.  Hopefully you don't need java for Writer, Calc or 
anything except perhaps Base so you can leave Java until later.  


Somewhat insanely this guide might help!
http://wikis.sun.com/display/StarOffice/StarOffice+9+Readme+for+Windows
LibreOffice was developed from OpenOffice and we keep fairly close ties with 
them now that they are run by Apache.  OpenOffice developed from StarOffice but 
that was about a decade ago.  There are not many (a few but not many) that 
worked in StarOffice.  The crazy thing is that Oracle were fairly bad at 
supporting or doing anything for OpenOffice during their brief ownership of it.  
They just seemed to try to kill it (imo).  However, that link might be 
helpful??!!

This guide was written a year or so before Oracle took ownership of OpenOffice.
http://specs.openoffice.org/installation/filetyperegistration/foreign_file_type_registration.odt

Sun were good at building up the community and keeping the product stable.  They 
owned it for about a decade and were the ones that gave it the name 
OpenOffice.org rather than keeping it as StarOffice.  The guide might try to 
download the Odt document onto your machine.  I don't normally like links that 
do that.  Many apols for that.  It's very dry stuff and difficult to read.  It's 
not really aimed at normal users so it might not be helpful.  


Hmm, this guide also looks like it might try to download itself, it's also very 
dry and also unlikely to really give quick easy answers.  

http://www.scribd.com/doc/53230646/readme-en-US
Perhaps good for the detail tho, maybe.  

Hopefully someone else on this list might be able to give a quicker, easier 
answer.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)




________________________________
From: Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 11 August, 2011 9:23:44
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to use the command /msoreg=1 ?

2011/8/11 sobriquet <c.sobriquet@gmail.com>:
> My computer does not have Microsoft office installed; rather the minute
> Starter office is in place.
> I followed the instructions in the System Requirements and
> downloaded--mmsvc90.dll. My computer is running Win7, so I went to
> Programs-->Accessories--> Command Prompt, where the screen shows
> C:\users\name>_
> I type the command /msoreg=1 at the prompt, and it refuses to acknowledge
> it.
> What went wrong?
> Tks,
> Sobriquet

And exactly where comes LibreOffice into the picture?


Regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

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