Ouch!! Definitely try to find a better version to install then. Are you installing a non-US version? Is that possibly why it is working for other people but not you? If so then we definitely need a bug-report about this!
I don't know how to file a bug-report, can anyone help? Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Olwe Melwasul <hercynianfor...@gmail.com> To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 19 January, 2011 17:27:40 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't save to .doc or .docx No dice on the changing the default save type either. I started a new Writer document after changing the Options/Load-Save... and it still freezes up. On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk>wrote: > Hi :) Sounds like a bad install somewhere then. Can the problem one be > reinstalled or updated? Perhaps from a different PPA? Which is the > recommended > PPA now? > > I tend to use the Tools menu to set the default to always use ".doc" > although > now that MicroSquish Office 2007 & 2010 can open ".odt" it is less of an > issue > except for old Word users. Anyway, to change the defaults ... > > Tools - Options - Load/Save - General > Then change the drop-down lists at the bottom by rolling up 1 or 2 places > avoiding the "Template" options. So, > "Text Document" = Word (98/2000/Xp) > "Spreadsheet" = Excel (98/2000/Xp) > "Presentation" = PowerPoint (98/2000/Xp) > > One better tactic, that would benefit us, is to use odt and when you email > people your documents give them the LibreOffice download link > http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ > Does this page cleverly know which operating system you are using? Does it > give > the right download for your OS like Firefox & OpenOffice do? > > Many regards from > Tom :) > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: "webmas...@krackedpress.com" <webmas...@krackedpress.com> > To: users@libreoffice.org > Sent: Wed, 19 January, 2011 17:07:36 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't save to .doc or .docx > > On 01/19/2011 11:54 AM, Olwe Melwasul wrote: > > I can choose from the usual long list of formats, but when I choose .doc > > (97/2000/XP) or .docx (2007) the Writer app hangs up. In my Gnome Ubuntu > > 10.04 that means the app "goes gray" as if it's thinking hard, but it > never > > recovers. I kill Writer and restart, which gives me the recover option. > All > > is good with recovery. I try a .odt save and that works. Would like .doc > > save, though.... > > > > I just opened a ODT file and used the save as option. I choose the .doc > file type and added the .doc extension to the file name. > It worked for me. No graying out. I use the current version RC3 > on Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit. > > >> Where is the problem? > >> Can you read a message? Or is the problem in the dialog box? > >> > >> > >> --- > >> Have a nice day. > >> > >> Joachim (Germany) > >> > >> -- > >> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > >>users+h...@libreoffice.org <users%2bh...@libreoffice.org>< > users%2bh...@libreoffice.org <users%252bh...@libreoffice.org>> > >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > >> *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > >> > >> > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to >users+h...@libreoffice.org<users%2bh...@libreoffice.org> > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to >users+h...@libreoffice.org<users%2bh...@libreoffice.org> > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
