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I think I'm currently at Version 4.4.5.2. The LibreOffice website's front page HERE [^] is very enthusiastically encouraging people to move up to their Version 5.
Smart ? Stupid ? Good ? Bad ?
Opinions are welcome from anyone who has Version 5
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I have it and it works quite well. No issues with it, and it loads quite quickly, although that may be a result of the powerful machine I have.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I had no problem with the 5.x version whatsoever (it is better than previous versions), but I have 5.0.3, not the 5.1.0 you see on the site...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I'm using Version 5.1.0.3, and it's pretty damn good.
I swapped to Libre after I had to reinstall Win10 from scratch, and MS refused to accept my Office 2010 installation (that came with the PC and I hated it anyway, except for Excel and Outlook)
Works well - it's less disjointed than Office and I haven't found anything it didn't cope with.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Did they ever put thumbnails on the Writer section ? I can't get them on my current version.
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If you mean thumbnails that show in Windows Explorer, then they are there for ODT files but not if you save in DOCX.
I save in DOCX, so I don't get them.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Do you mean to save thumbnails with documents?
...check this:
Tools/Options.../LibreOffice/Advanced/Expert Configuration/Look for property 'GenerateThumbnail'...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Mine has this set to true, but it only seems to work with ODT files, not DOCX (on my Win10 system anyway)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm using ODT...I will check when home for DOCX on Win 7...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Do you mean to save thumbnails with documents?
Not really.
I want to have the thumbnails on the left, similar to the way that Impress lets me see the slides in a small form.
Holy smoke ! There are a zillion of those.
Okay, found it, and it is set to true.
Duh, I'll try to install Version 5
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It can be that OG is right (even most unlikely  ) and it works only for ODT...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Quote: MS refused to accept my Office 2010 installation
I have installed Office 2010 on about 3 installations in the six years since I got it, one after the other. When MS refuses to activate it, they give you a number to call. The computer will ask you to confirm you are only installing it on one machine, then give you a new activation code. Have you tried this?
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No, I was just well and truly elephanted off by then - the only reason I was doing a clean install was that a Windows 10 update had disconnected my network and wouldn't let me have it back - so I thought I'd try Live Mail and Libre Office instead of Outlook and MS Office. Works fine, so why go back to something that annoys me every time I need to write a document? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: so why go back to something that annoys me every time I need to write a document?
Understood!
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Initial versions of LibreOffice 5 (on Linux at least) were really buggy for me.
Frequent crashes, strange formatting decisions.
So I put off upgrading.
Been running the most recent 5 stable release chain for a week or two now. Nothing to complain about so far. They must have hammered most of the issues.
Currently running 5.0.5.2 now.
I would certainly try it out first and see how you go.
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I am not a heavy user, but it but it works well. My only beef is with their ugliest graphic symbols & icons of their toolbars. Complete lack the graphic finesse unlike MS, and their meaning is totally incomprehensible.
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First used it today. Nice, really nice.
Choosing the default font for a given part of the program was (really, still is) a mystery, but I think I may have guessed it. It certainly isn't obvious.
But then, the price makes the value approach infinity, so, when I get rich I'll devote myself to writing code on the team.
So far, one complaint:
ALT-F does nothing.
I have to press
ALT then let go, then wait an indeterminate amount of time, then press
F
I suppose it's the same with all the other menu items.
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Don't be concerned, this is not a programming question, but I have been struggling for two days now, trying to dynamically change the color of a DataGrid row by using data triggers and/or converters, based on settings of check boxes in one column. In the process I must have been to 40 or more websites.
I was just about ready to pack it in, when the last site I visited popped up a nasty, large window, stating that I must immediately phone "Microsoft" at a number given. It stated my computer was infected with a vicious virus, but no fear, "Microsoft" will give me instructions to clear the infection. (No doubt the "advice" would not be free!) I tried in vain to close the window. I also could not go back to an earlier restore point for unknown reasons. The virus had apparently corrupted the restore files. The computer would not shut down normally and there was furious disk activity. So I shut it down by brute force: Pulling the power cord.
It so happens that I made a systems drive image a few days ago, after the latest Windows 10 update. So I connected the external drive where I store our family computer images and booted from a Macrium system restore boot disc. Total time to fully recover: About 5 minutes searching for the right boot disc and about 10 minutes to re-image the systems drive. I never even had to call "Microsoft".
Images have saved my family's bacon a few times. If you are not familiar with creation and recovery of images, I really recommend it as a worthwhile procedure to learn. There are several good utilities in this respect. Most are free. I use Macrium's Reflect (the free version). It is fully compatible with Windows 10 and SSDs, including UEFI systems. However, I don't have much experience of other brands. All I know, is that the Windows 7 utility for creation of images cannot be trusted. It has a nasty habit of refusing to re-image the systems drive for one reason or another, usually when you need it badly. I don't trust it. It is still part of Windows 10.
I was concerned that it may have been the dreaded Ransom virus, but my data drive was apparently untouched. I may have yanked the power cord too fast. I nevertheless took the precaution to change my password with my bank - just in case! The friggin low life that stink up the Internet didn't get me this time.
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modified 21-Feb-16 13:02pm.
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Right on brother.
Way to fight the power, No cloud can match your own usb backup and your own personnel brains to image it.
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Sorry to hear of your ordeal !
I've never had a problem with Win 7/8/8.1 built-in drive image facility.
Have yet to get mal-wared in the browser; perhaps the combination of EmsiSoft AV and Firewall, EFF Privacy Badger and UBlock Chrome Extensions, is the reason. Or, maybe I have been lucky; just haven't gone to wrong site yet.
My possible adoption date for Win 10 has now been pushed forward to September; which is when I think it might be "really" out of beta.
cheers, Bill
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Quote: Sorry to hear of your ordeal !
It did serve one useful purpose: To re-inforce my obsession to take images on a regular basis.
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Quote: I've never had a problem with Win 7/8/8.1 built-in drive image facility.
If you ever have a hard drive failure and you try to transfer an earlier image from that drive to a new drive, using the Windows 7 utility, the boogie man may get you!
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