Re: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb

2013-02-10 Thread Edwin Powell
I installed it with no problems using the procedure outlined at: http://mylinuxexplore.blogspot.com/2013/02/ubuntu-precise-install-libreoffice-400.html. I'm really liking 4.0 so far... On 02/09/2013 04:21 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 02/09/2013 03:07 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I downloaded the

[libreoffice-users] Upgrade to LibreOffice 3.5.1 on Xubuntu?

2012-03-20 Thread Edwin Powell
So I've got this laptop running Xubuntu 11.10 and I loaded LibreOffice 3.4.5 onto it last fall from the Ubuntu Software Center, but now I want to upgrade to 3.5.1 but the Ubuntu Software Center says I've got the newest version (3.4.5). Is there a trick to installing the software from the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

2011-09-11 Thread Edwin Powell
If LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org did not support M$ Office file formats, nobody would support them. Like it or not, the M$ Office file formats, both the older ones and the newer XML based ones, are the defacto industry standards. The greatest marketing point that OOo and its variants,

[libreoffice-users] RE: Converting Works Files

2011-04-03 Thread Edwin Powell
I haven't had occasion to try it with LibreOffice yet, but I have opened a few .wps files in NeoOffice, which incorporates Go-oo code as does LibreOffice. The only problem I had was that it strips out formatting (double-spacing, centered text, etc.) so it's at best an imperfect solution.