Hi :) It sounds like the 'in-built' help package has not been installed. When installing LibreOffice from the upstream website (ie the LibreOffice website, as you would install stuff if you were using Windows) there are usually 3 packages to install; 1. The main installer for the LibreOffice program/suite itself 2. The 'in-built' help file/package 3. Your language, unless En-US is your language in which case this package would be bundled in with the main installer.
So for the LibreOffice version from your repos you may need to use a package-manager to search for "LibreOffice help" of "LibreOffice help files" or something like that. When i have installed LibreOffice in Ubuntu in the past (when else right??) i'm sure the help-files were all selected by default, automatically. This behaviour may well have been changed either temporarily or deliberately for many different reasons. Personally i seem to remember the 'in-built' help seems to cause problems for native-English-speakers whereas the "Published Guides" are excellent; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications The translations of the 'inbuilt' help into almost all other languages other than English seem to be fantastic. For the English version the team that does the 'in-built' help has always been incredibly tiny and more 'geeky' than 'normal', and as a separate team from the one that works on the published guides their process of review-proofreading etc has been somewhat different too. Recently quite a lot of work has been done on the 'in-built' help to make it more 'normal' for us to understand more easily. However this work too is being done by non-native English speakers as it requires unusual technical skills that The Documentation Team doesn't find easy to learn. Hopefully the in-built help will remain just as good to translate from because it's always been particularly brilliant for that. Good luck and many regards from Tom :) On 20 January 2017 at 18:24, Dave Howorth <d...@howorth.org.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 19:27:20 +0100 > Philip Jackson <philip.jack...@nordnet.fr> wrote: > > > On 18/01/17 13:16, Dave Howorth wrote: > > > I run LibreOffice Version: 5.2.3.3 Build ID: 20m0(Build:3) on > > > openSUSE Leap 42.1 > > > > > > I just clicked on LibreOffice Help in the Help menu and discovered > > > that it opened a web page instead of a help window. The web page is > > > https://help.libreoffice.org/index.php?title=5.2/Common/ > Help&Language=en-US&System=UNIX&Version=5.2#bm_id3149178 > > > and I can't figure out how to use it to get help! It seems to be > > > some kind of overview/index but there doesn't seem to be any way to > > > actually invoke help. How do I use it? > > > > > Hi - I recognise your problem, Dave. I had exactly this on Ubuntu1404 > > LTS using the distro supplied version of LO. > > Hi Philip, > > Many thanks for your reply. It seems that both openSUSE and Ubuntu > dropped the ball when packaging this version, which perhaps points to > some communication omission on LO's part. I've submitted an openSUSE > bug for it but haven't had any feedback yet. > > > I've just refreshed my memory of how I dealt with it. On the page > > your link gets to, in the left hand column, second entry down is > > "Main Page". > > > > This takes you to : https://help.libreoffice.org/Main_Page > > and here you find more interesting links to each of the components in > > LO suite. > > Thanks for those instructions; they'll definitely help until the distro > is fixed. It's a pity the menu entry in the application doesn't link > directly to the online help for that application. Then it might be > almost usable! > > Cheers, Dave > > > hth > > Philip > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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
