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.
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.
Apologies for this being off-topic for the list but it's preventing
me from contributing properly and therefore hugely frustrating.
Everything was fine in v3.1, so I'll probably just have go back to
that level.
It's not really off-topic here; we often talk about issues we're
having with OOo not working (as a quick way of finding the answer,
which is often "it's a bug").
I've now checked on my WinXP machine and my Ubuntu machine, and the
results are the same (except for the Quickstarter, which isn't on Ubuntu).
I see Scenarios and Data > Multiple Operations ghosted out until I
select a range of cells containing data; then they become available. I
suspect Text to columns would become available if I selected suitable
cell(s), but haven't checked. Are you saying these menu items don't
become available when cells containing suitable data are selected?
The Quickstarter crashed for me when attempting to open an existing
document, as it did for you. After the crash, OOo's recovery process
successfully loaded the document I was attempting to open. Creating a
new file using the QS seemed to work fine. Hmmm... the QS has now
disappeared from the system tray!
--Jean
