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| Thread ID: 127550 | 2012-10-30 04:52:00 | Techsoup.net.nz | Paul.Cov (425) | Press F1 |
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| 1309696 | 2012-11-01 20:12:00 | Yeah already tried that on two of my computers here, Win7 Laptop and Win 8 Desktop, doesn't hold on either. Hmmmmm I am using the Portable apps version on both so maybe that's the reason, oh well, back to MS Word as always. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1309697 | 2012-11-01 20:46:00 | Yeah already tried that on two of my computers here, Win7 Laptop and Win 8 Desktop, doesn't hold on either. Hmmmmm I am using the Portable apps version on both so maybe that's the reason, oh well, back to MS Word as always. I think to get the setting change to stick you need to change the setting then save the document, as opposed to opening up a blank document, changing the setting, then discarding the document. That way works for me at least. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1309698 | 2012-11-01 20:51:00 | I think to get the setting change to stick you need to change the setting then save the document, as opposed to opening up a blank document, changing the setting, then discarding the document. That way works for me at least. The portable apps version may not hold the settings but it won't do any harm to try that which I agree with. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1309699 | 2012-11-02 07:09:00 | Nope that didn't work either, sad really, falls over at first base. Goodbye LibreOffice | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1309700 | 2012-11-02 07:57:00 | Nope that didn't work either, sad really, falls over at first base. Goodbye LibreOffice A couple of things could be happening, portable apps uses a US localisation as default. LibreOffice full install doesn't, you set that during install. I'm not sure that portable apps writes a user profile in your program files directory which is where your normal personal settings are placed by LO. Portable apps screws with quite a few things in order to make it portable. You have to remember it's just based on LO but not the same. Usually the only reason people use the portable apps version is so they manipulate ODF documents on some one else's machine, definitely not recommended as your main install on your own machine. I assume you have it on a USB drive. Anyway there is a fix that should work. Open a blank document and go Format > Page. Click the page tab and select A4 from the "Format" dropdown. The sizes should change. Modify any other setting you feel you want to then save as a name, say default2.OTT, The will be "Open Document Template" in the file type list. I don't know if you can save it on the portable apps drive, it would probably be best I think. Not had a whole lot of experience with it. anyway once saved, go to file > Templates > Organise. In the left hand pane click "My Templates", now click "commands" on the right, from the dropdown select "Import Templates" In the "explorer" window navigate to wherever you saved your default2.ott template. select and click open. The default2 will appear under the My Templates heading in the left pane. Click it and go back to the "command" menu and from the dropdown click "Set as default template". Go Apply and OK. Close LO, reopen LO and go File > New > Text document and it should open as an A4. If it doesn't then the problem is with Portable Apps. |
Yorick (8120) | ||
| 1309701 | 2012-11-02 10:21:00 | Nothing wrong with page settings on my LibreOffice. I am not using the portable version, I expect that is your problem. As Yorick said, PortableApps does all sorts of things to programs to get them to work in a 'portable' way. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1309702 | 2012-11-02 10:45:00 | Yeah already tried that on two of my computers here, Win7 Laptop and Win 8 Desktop, doesn't hold on either. Hmmmmm I am using the Portable apps version on both so maybe that's the reason, oh well, back to MS Word as always. So you are using the portable apps version and expect it to behave in the same way as the full version and as it doesn't you are quite happy to switch to the full version of Office. Sorry but that comes across as a troll post. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1309703 | 2012-11-02 11:50:00 | Not sure if trolling or just stupid... If you won't even bother to try to use the program properly, don't complain that it doesn't work properly. |
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