Showing posts with label libreoffice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label libreoffice. Show all posts

Thursday, 30 May 2013

LibreOffice is not showing CSV files properly

I get to deal with comma-separated(.csv) and tab-separated(.tsv) files from time to time and I have seen LibreOffice showing gibberish when I try to view the files.
The fix is actually very simple. I just had to set the encoding correctly.

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Office not working in Archlinux



After dropping of OpenOffice.org, Archlinux switched to LibreOffice from the Document foundation. As this was pushed through a regular update, I went on with it. However, after some time when I tried opening Office files, I was having trouble opening them at all.
I used to get stuck at this filter selection every time I opened a file. When I opened up LibreOffice, the various files options were grayed out.



I thought of checking the wiki for the procedure of installation. I reinstalled it using the following command:

pacman -S libreoffice-common libreoffice-{base,
calc,draw,impress,math,writer,kde4}


pacman -S libreoffice-extension-{pdfimport,presentation-minimizer,presenter-screen,report-builder,wiki-publisher,ct2n,hunart,numbertext,oooblogger,typo,watch-window,diagram}


After that, I was able to get things working again. However, interestingly, each time I had upgraded my system after the switch to LibreOffice, using

pacman -Syu

I had seen these packages were installed. Now there is only one issue, tooltips are just black rectangles.