[jzee]

http://www.libreoffice.org/download/

This release is bit-for-bit identical to the 3.5.4 Release Candidate 2

changes since 3.5.3

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/3.5.4/RC1
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/3.5.4/RC2

[jzee]

You need to be careful about overinstalling this, just checked and I still had the old version on, had to uninstall and reinstall again.

[barky99]

Originally Posted by jzee

You need to be careful about overinstalling this, just checked and I still had the old version on, had to uninstall and reinstall again.

that depends very much on which old version you have/had .... if alrerady a 4.5.* version there should be no trouble .... think there were troubles going from 4.4.4 to 4.5.0 without the 4.4.5 step for some folk?

[humptymcnumpty]

I've just installed this to have a look at it. So far I'm pretty impressed with it. It seems to have everything that I will ever use and MS Office compatibility too. Was going to reinstall my old copy of MS Office 2003. Don't think I'll bother I'll just keep this on.

[jzee]

Originally Posted by barky99

that depends very much on which old version you have/had .... if alrerady a 4.5.* version there should be no trouble .... think there were troubles going from 4.4.4 to 4.5.0 without the 4.4.5 step for some folk?

Yes I knew about the tip about older versions but I only had 3.5.2.2 (I think) on this one, it still reported as that after I installed 3.5.4.

[StalwartUK]

Having no ribbon alone makes this worth having.

[Phred]

Haven't used any Office replacemnts yet, am still using Office 2003.

One question I have, that will affect whether or not I change is does libre Office allow VBA scripts?

[lettice]

I like libre office, but a painful slow install for 3.5.4 and having to manually remove previous version and run install in forced admin mode is poor.

Think I may go back to openoffice now, seems libreoffice is losing it way a bit now Apache have OO

[anniebrion]

Originally Posted by lettice

I like libre office, but a painful slow install for 3.5.4 and having to manually remove previous version and run install in forced admin mode is poor.

Funny, I installed LO over the old version and it was rather quick at updating

You will only have to manually remove LO if you have a much older version than the one you are upgrading to.

[lettice]

Originally Posted by anniebrion

You will only have to manually remove LO if you have a much older version than the one you are upgrading to.

I had ver 3.4.4

[anniebrion]

Originally Posted by lettice

I had ver 3.4.4

They change the install folder etc... when the second number changes.

[jzee]

Originally Posted by anniebrion

They change the install folder etc... when the second number changes.

As I said there must be a bug as I had 3.5.2.2 and it didn't change version after I installed 3.5.4.

[barky99]

Originally Posted by lettice

I had ver 3.4.4

that's quite an old version now ... 7 versions back (6 minor & 1 major update) ... http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan

3.5.4 thing appears to be a Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Runtime problem .... which some seem to have had problems with

[jzee]

Originally Posted by barky99

3.5.4 thing appears to be a Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Runtime problem .... which some seem to have had problems with

So did it just show as 3.5.2 but was really 3.5.4 or??

[lettice]

Originally Posted by barky99

that's quite an old version now ... 7 versions back (6 minor & 1 major update) ... http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan

3.5.4 thing appears to be a Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Runtime problem .... which some seem to have had problems with

I had no problems with it, but I see this latest version has a check updates link under help, about time.
It was a pain to have to manual uninstall, bit yes as was said i still have a 3.4 folder left over, poor setup!

thinking of going back to openoffice, now apache have it, only went to libre office as openoffice fell by the wayside a bit.

[jzee]

Originally Posted by lettice

thinking of going back to openoffice, now apache have it, only went to libre office as openoffice fell by the wayside a bit.

I don't think that's wise despite this hiccup, it's still miles behind in terms of development, and cannot save docx files.

[Terry Purvis]

Originally Posted by lettice

thinking of going back to openoffice, now apache have it, only went to libre office as openoffice fell by the wayside a bit.

Me too, once they have a English UK dictionary available. I lost the spellchecker with latest version of LibreOffice and it was a pain to find the solution. For anyone else with the same problem here's the best fix I came across.

[jzee]

Originally Posted by Terry Purvis

Me too, once they have a English UK dictionary available. I lost the spellchecker with latest version of LibreOffice and it was a pain to find the solution. For anyone else with the same problem here's the best fix I came across.

Presumably this bug, hopefully fixed in 3.5.5, RC1 due for release next week.

[lettice]

Originally Posted by jzee

I don't think that's wise despite this hiccup, it's still miles behind in terms of development, and cannot save docx files.

Oh can it not, ta, staying put then.

[jzee]

Originally Posted by jzee

Presumably this bug, hopefully fixed in 3.5.5, RC1 due for release next week.

Bug fixed in 3.5.5 RC1.