On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:13:55 +0100 > "James Loring" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Don't understand where I am supposed to pas my comments on to the software >> developers >> >> I have reloaded open office about 3 times in the last 24 hours as impress >> crashes every time I open a power point article and it fails to convert >> correctly, detail is missing. I was an old fan of open office but seem to be >> having nothing right with impress, I am not impressed. >> >> I am running windows xp with all service packs and MS office 2003 >> > Is this the one powerpoint file, or all? Remember that the file formats of > MS Office have been reverse engineered and the conversion may not be fully > correct or complete. It is worth trying to delete or rename your User > Profile. Details on this are at > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426 > > It is not generally understood, but un/re-installing of OpenOffice does not > in general make a new User Profile; it picks up the existing profile. It can > happen that the initial profile generated is corrupt; deleting or renaming it > (as outlined in above url) causes OpenOffice to generate a new profile on > next startup; this cures a very high percentage of OpenOffice quirks. > --
Since this seems to be such a common "solution", I wonder if we should add this directly to the product? Something like a Help menu item, or Help/Support menu for "reset profile on restart" or something like that. We don't want to make it so prominent that someone clicks it by accident. But it would allow us to better support users if we could point them to this menu option instead of scary command-line instructions. -Rob > Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]>
