I had been using OO 3.0 successfully and happily. But upon downloading OO
3.1 only problems. I have searched the various forums, etc.
unsatisfactorily. The basic problem is that it will not open .xls spreadsheet
and .doc
files, all of which all of which were originally originated with OO 3.0, saved
in .xls & .doc formats. It appears to start "open" as indicated by the
dotted green "loading" indication, then hangs up. "CTRL-ALT-DEL" to Windows
Task Manager shows OO 3.1 "Running."
The PC is an ACER Intel Atom N270 1.60 GHz, 797mHz 0.98 GB RAM. I
originally download OO 3.1 from the link appearing upon loading OO 3.0; it
appeared
to download, decompress, etc. satisfactorily. But it would not open files
per above; :Recently used files did not appear. I uninstalled 00 30
thinking there may have been insufficient RAM for complete loading, uninstalled
OO
3.1 and reloaded via openoffice.org; alll indications were of satisfactory
loading, etc. The inability to open files persisted with the exception that
leaving the machine running in the OO 3.1 file open status while I did
other work, the file had been opened after over 60 minutes; in the other
attempts the file did not open after 30 minutes.
I would gladly revert back to OO 3.0, but having uninstalled it, it is gone
and I can,t find access to it.
So I,m stuck and desparate. I went to OO since this machine does not have a
removable disc drive; I do have 0.5 and 8 GB USB memory sticks; is the
software available for these or copied from a CD Rom for subsequent
downloading? The Netbook is important to me as it is light weight and small
enough to
fit in my bicycle pannier with which I sometimes take multi-week trips.
I look forward to a useful response, else I will have to revert back to
Word, Excel, etc.
Hopefully, jreyr: Jerry Wire, 425/747-0921
