I just installed Libre Office and the help pack and when I go to save a file, (Either one I’ve edited or a brand-new one) the “Save As” dialog, I cannot choose a File Type… (The dropdown is missing!) but the label is there, and if I resize the Save As dialog , it appears that the screen is not updated where the dropdown should be. (“Ghosts” of things like the “Cancel” button appear where it should be…) This also happens in the Export dialog… Clicking also Save or Cancel does nothing, (I did get it to save a new document once, but I don’t even think I could reproduce what I did to get it to do so, and it made an ODT file which is no good for sending out (resumes) to employers.) I have to click the X in the top right of the dialog to exit it, without saving… This problem occurs in ALL LibO products on this PC, but my main concern is Writer…
I am running a fairly clean XP SP3 install, and except for Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack & previous use of Open Office Portable there has been no software installed to handle Office documents… What’s going on???
I have already tried repair installs of both the help pack & LibO with no changes in what’s going on…
I have LibO Portable on another PC (works fine there) but when I ran the portable version on the PC with the problem above, the same problem happens…
I tried replacing the User Profile , but that didn’t fix the issue…
The PC is malware/virus free (as scanned by Security Essentials with the latest updates…)
I will attempt uninstalling the Help Pack & LibO and do a fresh install later… (Just to thoroughly test, I’ll also try with LibO Portable while everything is un-installed too.) Maybe tonight…
I might also un-install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, later as it’s not going to be needed once I have LibO up & running…
Ok, I’ve found a work-around for it… I have enabled “Use Libre Office Dialogs” somewhere in the options. It would still be nice to know what’s gone wrong with the standard Windows API dialogs & fix it though, so feel free to be a knight in shining armor and chime in with the solution…
Use LibreOffice dialogs (enabled)