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Tips & Tricks for SoftMaker Office
Installing SoftMaker Office in Windows 8SoftMaker Office 2012 and 2010 run flawlessly under Microsoft Windows 8. However, the installation program included with older revisions of SoftMaker Office refuses to work in Windows 8 because it does not recognize this operating system. This has been corrected in November 2012. If you still have an older revision, please download the full version (not the trial) of SoftMaker Office 2012 or 2010 again and install it in Windows 8. The download address can be found in the registration e-mail that you received after your purchase of SoftMaker Office. |
Managing your SoftMaker Office for Windows installations centrally
System administrators:
If you install SoftMaker Office 2010 oder 2012 for Windows in a network and wish to use your existing software deployment tools, you can extract MSI installation archives from the setup program. Here are the instructions:
How to run SoftMaker Office for Windows from a USB flash drive
If you want to carry SoftMaker Office for Windows and important documents with you, you can copy SoftMaker Office to a USB flash drive. You can then insert this USB flash drive in any Windows-based computer (for example, those of friends or in Internet cafes) and run SoftMaker Office to access your documents.
The important issue is that SoftMaker Office must be prevented from changing the Windows Registry, the Start menu, or other parts of a Windows installation that is not your own. This is possible with all programs in SoftMaker Office for Windows. Proceed as follows:
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Install SoftMaker Office on your regular PC's built-in hard disk. This lets you work with SoftMaker Office in the regular way, even without a USB flash drive. |
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Click on the Windows Start button, then select Programs, SoftMaker Office, Utilities, Install SoftMaker Office on a USB stick. |
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Follow the instructions in this program. When prompted to do so, insert the USB flash drive in your PC. |
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The usbstick program now copies the complete SoftMaker Office folder and the complete folder My Documents\SoftMaker to your USB flash drive. This makes all SoftMaker Office program files, all documents and all settings available on the USB flash drive. |
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When the usbstick program is done, your USB flash drive contains a fully functional copy of SoftMaker Office which does not register itself in Windows, as well as all your documents, spreadsheets, and configuration files. |
What does usbstick.exe do exactly? If you want to know the details, here they are:
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It determines the folder in which SoftMaker Office is installed, and copies the complete folder to the USB flash drive. |
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It then copies the complete folder "My Documents\SoftMaker" to the USB flash drive (more exactly: into the folder "SoftMaker" below the SoftMaker Office folder). |
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However, the program only copies files that do not exist yet on the USB flash drive and replaces only those which are older on the USB flash drive than on the hard disk. |
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Finally, the usbstick program creates a file named portable.txt in the SoftMaker Office folder on the USB flash drive. This file, whose contents are irrelevant, is a "marker file". Its existence causes SoftMaker Office to not install itself in the Windows Registry or the Start menu. |
How to run SoftMaker Office for Linux from a USB flash drive
You can run SoftMaker Office for Linux from a USB flash drive, too. Proceed as follows:
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Install SoftMaker Office on the built-in hard disk of your Linux PC. This lets you work with SoftMaker Office in the regular way, even without a USB flash drive. |
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Create a folder on the USB flash drive and copy the contents of the SoftMaker Office application folder (for example, /usr/share/softmakeroffice) to this folder:
mkdir /media/disk/softmakeroffice
(replace /media/disk with the path of your USB flash drive) |
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In this new folder on the USB flash drive, create a file with name portable.txt. Its content does not matter:
cd /media/disk/softmakeroffice (replace
/media/disk with the path of your USB flash drive) The portable.txt file is just a "marker file" that informs SoftMaker Office that it should run in portable mode and not leave any configuration files on the host operating system. |
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Then, launch TextMaker: ./textmaker TextMaker creates two folders:
/media/disk/softmakeroffice/SoftMaker –
that's where the documents and templates go Next, TextMaker installs its default document templates and configuration files into these folders. This can take up to half a minute. After that, TextMaker starts. That's it; the installation is complete. Now you can also copy documents and templates that you need to the flash drive. Place documents in /media/disk/softmakeroffice/SoftMaker and templates in /media/disk/softmakeroffice/SoftMaker/Templates. |
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To launch one of the programs, open the SoftMaker Office folder on the USB flash drive and double-click on the program you wish to launch (textmaker or planmaker or presentations). |
Tips & Tricks for TextMaker and PlanMaker
You'll find more tips and tricks for both applications on the respective tips pages for TextMaker and PlanMaker.
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