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

2011/8/11 Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>:
> 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.

Yes, I just found out… But he operator could have been more detailed,
couldn't he…? :D
Well, it's all sorted out now anyway, isn't it?



Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

> 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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