OpenOffice Portable

Here is a twist of the old card question of making one .exe for all the OpenOffice.org programs or a least a folder on the menu to put them all in.
So I am not sure, but since OpenOffice.org has mulitple .exe, and I have it installed localled on my laptop, I was wondering if folks know how to make a program folder for it so I can put all the OpenOffice.org .exe there.
I suppose I just want it to be similar to other suites I have installed.

The Portable OOo 3 beta 2 English version spell check seems broken. Is that from the OOo site like that or is that a PA language tweak issue or was I suppose to set something up verses a default download/install?

All English words are marked as misspelled? Maybe the US dictionary is bad on new or existing documents, and no suggestions are offered.

Anyway, if you select the UK dictionary instead of the default US dictionary, things get much better, maybe perfect, at least where the two agree on spelling (color vs colour).

I've just downloaded OOo 3 beta 2 and (sadly) I've already found a number of bugs.

I don't imagine these bugs are anything specific to the portable version, so I won't post them here, but I would like to post them somewhere. Can someone help me and tell me exactly where I might post them so these issues are seen by the OpenOffice team?

I've logged into the OOo website and tried looking, but didn't find anything right away. I'm tired and kranky today, so maybe I just missed it??

[Topic clarified by mod Tim]
was "Bugs"

I'm using Open Office Portable to help accomplish document conversion task ( convert input files to pdf) in a .NET application that I'm building. Here is the great article:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/office/PortableOpenOffice.aspx?msg=2668040...

All the things work fine, the only thing I wanna improve is the large disk space occupied by OO Portable. I find that there are many files and folders in the extracted Open Office Portable. It occupies about 500 MB. So I wanna know which files / folders are not needed if I just wanna use it for document conversion?

I believe the following support page has a small error: https://portableapps.com/support/openoffice_portable#local_settings -

Under the heading "Copying Your Local OpenOffice.org Settings to OpenOffice.org Portable"

Just copy everything in that directory to the PortableOpenOffice\settings\ directory and you're all set.

This should be :

Just copy everything in that directory to the PortableOpenOffice\DATA\settings\ directory and you're all set.

Ive spent most of the last 2 days trying to get open office into my portable apps......... tried 2 different comps 2 different USB sticks... many different configarations of fire wall etc on off etc tried through I.E and FIRE FOX...and it will not install dure to the INSTALLER INTEGRITY and it says to contact the installer publisher for an new one or something..... NSIS is the company .......today I have spent 2 hrs waiting for the download which firefox said was complete when i try to open it It gives the same integrity problem.

When I try to start OpenOffice.org Portable in my PC (128Mb RAM, Celeron 466 Mhz, Windows 2000 Service Pack 4)it fails with the message "soffice.BIN.exe has generated errors..." and I cannot find such file in the app. I didnt remember well but I think in the past I got a similar issue with other app and it was related to fonts in Windows, but I am not sure... May someone help me please?

Hello,

first: Greats apps, I use them for a about a year now, nothing but good things to say. Thanks for all your work.

My question (and this bugs me for a while now):

All user-settings (e.g. last documents, the way OOo handles auto-correction, the way it substitutes quotation marks etc.) are set back to default once I close the program. There seem to be no way to save my settings.

Now I understand OOo doesn't write to the registry but any change to the tools bars is saved perfectly.

I have downloaded the 2.4.1 version twice and tried to install it on two different USB 2GB sticks with 40 to 50% free. I get the same error all four attempts to upgrade the 2.4.0 version.
F:\PortableApps\OpenOfficePortabele\App\openoffice\help\en\schart.idx\LINKNAMES
Click Abort to stop the installation,
Retry to try again, or
Ignore to skip this file.
I have aborted each time, should I try Ignore or is there a problem with the new version installer? Or is there something else I am missing?

Hi,

I have install Open Office Portable on my drive, and executed it, then copie the ini file.
It work fine on my local drive.

But when I copy the file on the CD, Open Office show me the welcome screen for registration.
How can I bypass the option.

The objective is to have on a CD, open office which will start automatically a presentation opd.

Any Solution ?
Or I am looking for a small aplication which will be able to open a presentation OOO *.opd) like the Microsoft Version of PPTViewer.

Thanks.
Smad