Hi,James,
Hope my experience with a parallel install of 3.2RC2 on WV can be of
some help. I was running on WXP last year.
On 1/16/2010 18:43, James Andrew wrote:
I was just wondering if anyone sees either of the following two
issues with v3.2 RC2 (build 9476) on Windows XP. I want to believe
it's my PC that's the problem, not the software. Perhaps you know of
an option setting which I should check.
Firstly, I'm trying to review a Calc chapter and I need to work with
Tools> Scenarios. Unfortunately, that option is ghosted out and
unavailable. Same goes for a couple of options on the Data menu:
Multiple operations and Text to columns.
I find the following behavior on both 3.1.1 and 3.2RC2:
* If only one cell is selected, the >Scenarios option is grayed out.
* If two cells are selected, it's active.
Haven't tried the Data menu; I confess I've no idea what it's for.
Secondly, if I right-click on the Quickstarter and open an existing
document, OOo will usually crash mid-way through opening the file.
Works fine if I use any other method of opening.
Old retired systems programmer, here. Could you give a little more
information?
* Do you get a real program abort, or an error message? (If message, what?)
* What happens on recovery? Does it recover? Does it even try? Do you
get a dump?
At least, this one is easy to work around: Don't do that! ;-)
Apologies for this being off-topic for the list but it's preventing
me from contributing properly and therefore hugely frustrating.
All problems welcome. If your cat keeps jumping on the keyboard, there's
probably someone on the list who can help with that.
Everything was fine in v3.1, so I'll probably just have go back to
that level.
You might be interested in running parallel versions, with 3.1.1
"really" installed, and 3.2.x only "available". The link is:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Run_OOo_versions_parallel
and if you have any problems, I just did this, so I'm ready to help.
Thanks.
Welcome.
--
/tj/
T. J. Frazier
Melbourne, FL
(TJFrazier on OO.o)
