Oo on 7.04

Scott Lockwood scott at guppylog.com
Tue Jun 5 21:33:57 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 17:11 -0400, JD wrote:
> This is the 3rd box I've installed 7.04 to, and the first I've seen this
> problem.  Whenever I open a M$ office document (so far it's happened in both
> Excel and Word), I get a dialog from Oo that it needs to recover the
> document, even if it is a document that I either just got from the server at
> work, or just received in email.  When I select a document to recover, it
> tells me that "Open Office encountered a problem" and begins the process
> again.  I've tried this with documents from several sources, and it happens
> 100% of the time... Anyone else seen this???
> My laptop (Dell 820) is up to date with Ubu sources as of this morning, and
> I didn't notice any updates for Oo...
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.

If the document really IS damaged, open in in Microsoft Word, by opening
Word, selecting open from the menu, and clicking on the file, and then
the little down-pointing arrow, and select the open and repair option.

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Regards,
Scott Lockwood





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