Re: [expert] Opening MS Word files with StareOffice 6

2002-05-26 Thread Phil
On Thu, 23 May 2002 23:19, you wrote: > I (and many others) have had the same probles you describe, which was > due to a bad installation. > I'm pleased to say that StarOffice now works perfectly, or almost so. Thank you for showing me the way. There is one little problem though. When using the

Re: [expert] Opening MS Word files with StareOffice 6

2002-05-23 Thread Brian Parish
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 00:27, Brian Parish wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 23:19, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > > I (and many others) have had the same probles you describe, which was > > due to a bad installation. > > > > One correct installation procedure was posted by James_H_Covington on > > the

Re: [expert] Opening MS Word files with StareOffice 6

2002-05-23 Thread Brian Parish
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 23:19, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > I (and many others) have had the same probles you describe, which was > due to a bad installation. > > One correct installation procedure was posted by James_H_Covington on > the Mandrake Club (and also, but later, summarized by Mandrake in

Re: [expert] Opening MS Word files with StareOffice 6

2002-05-23 Thread Raffaele Belardi
I (and many others) have had the same probles you describe, which was due to a bad installation. One correct installation procedure was posted by James_H_Covington on the Mandrake Club (and also, but later, summarized by Mandrake in a Mandrake Club web page). I will quote part of James' messa

Re: [expert] Opening MS Word files with StareOffice 6

2002-05-23 Thread Randy Kramer
Phil wrote: > When I attempt to open a Microsoft Word file the following error message is > displayed, and then the application closes. > > "An unrecoverable error has occurred" > > This did not occur with StarOffice 5.2. > > Does anyone have any ideas, maybe a missing library file? Not me, bu

Re: [expert] Opening MS Word files with StareOffice 6

2002-05-23 Thread Randy Kramer
Oops, sorry, referred to 5.2 when I should have referred to 6.0 -- see below: Randy Kramer wrote: > Phil wrote: > > When I attempt to open a Microsoft Word file the following error message is > > displayed, and then the application closes. > > > > "An unrecoverable error has occurred" > > > > Thi

Re: [expert] Opening MS Word files with StareOffice 6

2002-05-23 Thread Brian Parish
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 07:30, Phil wrote: > Hello All, > > I have just received my copy of Mandrake 8.2 and a CD rewriter. The CD > rewriter and Mandrake seem to function faultlessly however I am having a > problem with StarOffice 6. > > When I attempt to open a Microsoft Word file the followin

[expert] Opening MS Word files with StareOffice 6

2002-05-23 Thread Phil
Hello All, I have just received my copy of Mandrake 8.2 and a CD rewriter. The CD rewriter and Mandrake seem to function faultlessly however I am having a problem with StarOffice 6. When I attempt to open a Microsoft Word file the following error message is displayed, and then the application