How to Back Up and Transfer Your OpenOffice or LibreOffice Settings
Have you ever reinstalled OpenOffice (OO) or LibreOffice (LO) after moving to a different PC? If so, you know that you have to spend some good 15 minutes to customize and fit OO/LO to your needs, which is quite boring (and annoying). With...
Method 1 of 2:
On Windows
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Picture 1 of How to Back Up and Transfer Your OpenOffice or LibreOffice Settings Go to C:UsersAppDataRoaming3 -
Picture 2 of How to Back Up and Transfer Your OpenOffice or LibreOffice Settings Copy the "user" folder and back it up wherever it's comfortable for you. -
Picture 3 of How to Back Up and Transfer Your OpenOffice or LibreOffice Settings Now you have a backup of all your settings, autocorrection rules, templates, extensions and more. -
Picture 4 of How to Back Up and Transfer Your OpenOffice or LibreOffice Settings After the installation of OO/LO go to C:UsersAppDataRoaming3 and replace the user folder that you'll find with the one that you previously backed up. -
Picture 5 of How to Back Up and Transfer Your OpenOffice or LibreOffice Settings That was your last step. Now open OO/LO and enjoy your old settings and all the other stuffs you were used to have.
Method 2 of 2:
On Linux
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Picture 6 of How to Back Up and Transfer Your OpenOffice or LibreOffice Settings Go to:- /home//.openoffice/4/user OR
- /home//.openoffice.org/3/user/home//.config/libreoffice/3/user for LibreOffice OR
- /home//.config/libreoffice/4-suse/user/ for OpenSuse 13
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Picture 7 of How to Back Up and Transfer Your OpenOffice or LibreOffice Settings Copy the contents of this file or the file itself to your backup location. -
Picture 8 of How to Back Up and Transfer Your OpenOffice or LibreOffice Settings This file can then be placed into the same location for another Linux machine or new OO/LO installation.
Update 05 March 2020
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