Software :: OpenOffice Writer Lockup - Error
Mar 6, 2011
I've just installed Scientific Linux 6 (equivalent to RHEL 6) with OpenOffice.org 3.2.1
If I click on a file to open it with Writer, the program locks up. If I run Writer first and load the file, all seems to be well. But if I launch Writer from the command line, I'm left with the error
The ? are my insertions, replacing invalid codes.
This happens with all text files, new or old. Has anyone else seen this, and is there any solution other than re-installing OpenOffice?
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Aug 2, 2010
There is a bad bug in OpenOffice that keeps giving me a hard lock. I can not even shut down the program, I need to force a reboot. I can make it happen repetitively. Anytime I am working on a presentation in OpenOffice Impress an am working with sound files this happens. If I am moving the sound file icon around on the slide it randomly locks up the file I have open. Another way is resizing the icon and it will also lock it up.
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Nov 28, 2009
Open two different instances of OpenOffice Writer (two separate entries on the task bar). In one of them type the word test and highlight it and leave it that way. Now using the mouse pointer try switching between these two different OpenOffice Writers on the task bar. There shouldn't be much of a switching delay if any, going either way.
Now go to the OpenOffice Writer with "test" highlighted. Hit the <ctrl>C (copy) key about five times rapidly, then immediately click the mouse on the other OpenOffice Writer on the task bar. I am seeing up to a 5 second dead time delay between switching. There is no "busy" indication from the mouse pointer. The mouse pointer moves, but any clicks will not take effect during the 5 second delay, then any mouse clicks quickly take effect in a cascade after the delay is over.
Sometimes Klipper looses the <ctrl>C (copy) "test" text (Klipper still displays it its history) and refuses to <ctrl>V (paste) "test" any longer. When Klipper reaches this state a single <ctrl>C (copy) of "test" will cause the up to 5 second delay when switching.
The delay is only noticeable if you immediately switch on the task bar. If I do the copies and simply wait at least 5 seconds before switching, there is no delay. So, the switching itself isn't the cause.
I have reproduced this on PCs in a 32 bit 11.2 install and a 64 bit 11.2 install. Both installs are KDE 4.3.3 release 3 repos. Either this long delay shouldn't be happening or the mouse should at least do its busy indication thing and not act like everything is normal when it isn't.
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Apr 27, 2010
In spite of the fact that the printer set-up is working with the Gimp and other more involved print-capable programs.
The printer is a Dell 3100cn color laser printer.
The best driver I found was one I got off of Dell's site - it was an RPM that I aliased (I'm using Debian lenny).
I set Openoffice Writer's printer configuration to "letter."
I check the settings in the print pop-up before I print.
And then the printer asks me for A4 paper.
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How do I make it so that when I add lines to a page, it doesn't make the text on the next page move further down? I'm trying to make sure my sections will start on the same page as I typed them when a Windows user opens the Word document (which is what I will be exporting this as) in their Microsoft Office. I'm using OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 on Ubuntu 8.10.
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Jun 7, 2011
spellchecker for openoffice.org writer not working. know how to fix it?....or what packages to add...or whatever?
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Apr 19, 2010
Am having issues with compatibility b/w OO Writer and MS Word. I desperately need to use track changes, and would love to abandon MS Word altogether. However, using OO Writer, any tracked changes I make to MS Word documents do not translate well. In MS Word, the changes are there (I can view the initial document, and the final document), but there is no way to see the combination (i.e, a marked up copy).
Can anyone tell me whether this is normal, or whether it is just me? Once I get comments and tracked changes working perfectly, I should be able to switch completely. But until then, I must stick with MS for work.
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Jun 9, 2010
I have the problem that whenever I write something it freezes up the window, my processor use rise to 100% and then it crash showing the OpenOffice.org crash-screen. This only happens in Writer and not Spreadsheets, Presentation refuses to start.
Info about the system:
OpenOffice:
OpenOffice.org 3.2.0
OOO320m12 (Build:9483)
[Code].....
Edit: Reinstalling the entire package and rebooting did not fix this issue.
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Oct 12, 2010
In previous versions of Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org I could easily dock the navigator to the right or left side of the screen by simply moving it there. A faded outline would be created and it would snap into place. In 10.04, I can't do this. Does anyone know how to dock the navigator in OpenOffice.org?
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Feb 28, 2011
I've OpenOffice v3.2 installed on my ubuntu lucid lynx. I've recently installed the Sun Weblog Extension on it. It should help me post to my blogs, but as I tried searching the internet I came to find out that I had to install some sort of update. I don't know what that update is. The place where I got that info is from the following online pdf document.[URL].. I also tried looking at some blog posts which tried to explain how to do the setup for the extension. But the settings screen turned out to be blank. The place where I got this info was here [URL]..
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Mar 24, 2011
In my table, whenever I enter true or false in any cell, Writer changes it to all Caps, so true becomes TRUE and false becomes FALSE. Now I did not set the cell type to BOOLEAN. If I do Format > Change Case > Lowercase it changes, but reverts to all caps the next time the document is opened. I have checked autocomplete, autocorrect, table number format but seem to change this behaviour.
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Apr 6, 2010
HP DJ1520
CUPS
print options set to color in both OS printer-options dialogue and CUPS browser dialogue.
printer successfully prints color test page from CUPS browser dialogue.
openoffice Writer print-preview shows document in color.
openoffice Writer printer-dialogue options set to color.
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Apr 6, 2010
HP DJ1520
CUPS
print options set to color in both OS printer-options dialogue and CUPS browser dialogue.
printer successfully prints color test page from CUPS browser dialogue.
openoffice Writer print-preview shows document in color.
openoffice Writer printer-dialogue options set to color.
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Jul 7, 2009
I'm trying to create an AutoText shortcut for " (used in PHP to escape the quotation marks). I'm running into two problems:
1) If I hit the shortcut without inserting a space first (eg, name=", where " is the shortcut), AutoText wants to treat =" as the shortcut. I'm guessing there's no way around this--just have to put extra spaces in my code.
2) After I create the AutoText shortcut, being hyper-careful that there are no spaces or returns in the text selected to create the short cut or even after the text to be shortcutted, OO.o Writer insists on inserting a return when I invoke the AutoText shortcut. (This doesn't happen with other AutoText shortcuts.)
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HP DJ1520
CUPS
print options set to color in both OS printer-options dialogue and CUPS browser dialogue. printer successfully prints color test page from CUPS browser dialogue. openoffice Writer print-preview shows document in color. openoffice Writer printer-dialogue options set to color.
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Jun 1, 2010
Cannot paste URL When I middle-paste into the URL box in the Hyperlink toolbar, nothing happens. Misleading support link The support link in Help/Support shows the general Novell support page. It is not clear how to get support for OpenOffice from there (especially for openSuSE). Hyperlink toolbar button performs no action In order to place a hyperlink at the cursor, you have to click the pull-down menu by the hyperlink button on the toolbar. Clicking on the button has no effect.
I think it should be equivalent to inserting the hyperlink as text. Persistent extending hyperlink mode When you place the insertion point immediately following a hyperlink and start typing, the hyperlink text extends; there is no way to cancel that effect. In particular, in the situation when a new document contains only a hyperlink, everything you type, either in front or at the end, becomes a part of it. The only way out of this situtation is to clear the hyperlink text and press Enter; the hyperlink is then replaced with an explicit URL and you can type further without extending the hyperlink.
No apply on Close There is another undocumented button in the Standard Toolbar that opens the Hyperlink dialog box. This box behaves in a very peculiar way: when you click on the button [Close], the box closes without updating anything. In order to apply the changes you have to press [Apply] and only then [Close]. This is rather surprising (at least for me), although it is better understandable when you consider that the Hyperlink dialog box is modeless. Travelling paste Steps to reproduce:
1. Edit a long document (containing several pages).
2. Mark some text on Page 1.
3. Middle-paste the text on Page 3.
Observe how you get transferred back to Page 1.
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Dec 16, 2010
My document contains a parenthetical remark, like this:
(This is a long parenthetical remark.)
OpenOffice Writer advises me that the dot should rather be placed after the parenthesis:
(This is a long parenthetical remark).
I think OpenOffice Writer is wrong.
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I'm trying to find a way to represent relational algebra symbols such as the funky bowtie for equijoin in OpenOffice Writer.. I can't find anything in special characters. Has anyone figured out how to show the symbols?
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I'm using Mint9, and making labels with openoffice writer. I find myself going through a bunch of keystrokes every little while that I'd like to convert to a macro or two to simplify my work. "alt-vzpo" and then "alt-vzwo" to change the view first to "page width" and then to "whole page".
Id like to have a macro or hotkey or shortcut to toggle those two, or two separate ones to accomplish each.
What I'm thinking is to build them into environmental variables to be established when I start openoffice writer (With a command line) and then to remove those environmental variables when I exit. I used to do similar things in DOS, but it's been a long time and this isn't DOS.
Is there a better way? Or if that would be the best way, how do I go about writing a script that will do that? Or would it even work?
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Mar 3, 2010
I am using cairo-dock, I want to add openoffice writer to the dock. Where do I find the icon for this? What is the equivalent of windows 'program files' in openSUSE. I'm thinking if I can find its directory, I can find its icon.
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Dec 11, 2010
In Open Office Writer, How do I create headers/footers different for certain pages. For example: From page 20-60, I need to write a text "Hello Header" in the header and "Hello Footer". And from page 61-100, The header should read as "Good bye header" and footer to read as "Good bye footer"? Is this possible? Or is there any software available to make this happen?
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May 25, 2009
This is rather queer, as I know what I'm looking for, but I'm not sure what it is called, or whether it exists in Writer.
I'm writing a report, and I would like to have the content (index) page configured "automatically", so that it lists my headings in the rest of the document, but if I add something in the middle of what has already been written then it should pick that up and change the content page accordingly, without messing up the page numbers.
It's quite a pain to make a content page by hand. I think MS Word has a tool to allow you to do this, but I don't want to use MS Word in this case for various reasons. So does anyone know what this is called and perhaps how it is done on Writer. Although, if I know what it's called, I can use the Help.
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Jun 9, 2010
I need to know the header file used at 'c' to support openoffice writter at REDHAT4. I plan to write a c++ program for something like spellbee game. so instead of giving a txtfile which has a list of words as a source for the game I decided to use some header file. My assumptions are: Since the redhat4 is written through the "C" language and as well as the openoffice writter which is a supporting package at this os too might have the linker right. At openoffice writter we have the spellcheck feature which might had a source from where it checks the words whenever we type something at openoffice writer. So is it possible to use those header file or linkage source at my c++ spellbee game program instead off creating the list about few bunch of words.
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Jan 31, 2010
I am having a problem with lockups on a new FC12 box (dual core 3 ghz, 4 gb memory,HDPVR,nvidia 8400gs). This happens reliably when replaying MythTV videos, but also randomly at other times using other apps (I suspect also boot but I can't be sure; it just occasionally stalls part way through the boot display).
Usually but not always this is accompanied by a kernel panic (caps lock + scroll lock lights flash on keyboard).
I did a core dump with kdump and it reports:
Thread 1 (<main task>):
Cannot access memory at address 0xffff880028025b70
I am in the process of running memtest86+ right now, and it's been through several passes without errors. I know it needs to run more, but given the reliability of this problem with MythTV video playback I am wondering if the problem could be in the video card memory.
Does anyone know of a linux (or bootable) tester for video memory? All I am able to find are some things for windoze like this.
Also is there any way to track that address from the core dump back to a physical location?
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