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.knu...@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.sobriq...@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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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