I have kubuntu Natty installed and with to change from libreoffice to openoffice

[Thomas Olsen]

On Sunday 05 June 2011 09:16:46 O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 05/06/2011 04:34, Waleed Hamra wrote:
> > On 06/03/2011 05:20 PM, Paul Stear wrote:
> >> On Friday 03 Jun 2011 15:15:44 Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> >>> Paul,
> >>> 
> >>> On 3 June 2011 15:09, Paul Stear<linux at appjaws.plus.com>  wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> How can I disable libreoffice and use openoffice?
> >>>> I have tried using software management but to install openoffice it
> >>>> installs libreoffice instead..
> >>>> libreoffice will not save my complicated spreadshhets.
> >>> 
> >>> Libreoffice is a rebadged OpenOffice and identical to functionality
> >>> for the same release at the moment. It was forked a couple of months
> >>> ago and kept in line with the source code released by Oracle. Oracle
> >>> has just tried to abandon OpenOffice and dump it on Apache but it's
> >>> not certain if Apache will pick it up or not.
> >> 
> >> Thanks for that, How do I resolve my problem of saving a spreadsheet?
> >> When I try and save the program just crashes.
> >> Paul
> > 
> > does the file name include a space? does the full ath of the folder
> > you're saving in, contain a space? if so, remove it, this is known to
> > crash it. otherwise... a little more information is going to be needed
> > to help you out here.
> 
> I also get problems with any document, spreadsheet etc if they contain
> special characters with umlauts - I am from Sweden and we have åöä - if
> any of those are in the filename I can not even open it without renaming
> first

That's embarrasing for LibreOffice. Kind of a 101 in file handling.

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Thomas Olsen

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