On 10/18/2014 08:41 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 10/15/2014 10:09 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
The macros are very specific to that 1 specific version of MS
Office. To
use the file in MSO 2007 or 2013 or 365 then you might need to have the
macro rewritten.
If you had them rewritten for LibreOffice then you probably wouldn't
ever
need to rewrite them again, except to add improvements or the fairly
rare
times that a relevant bit of functionality got completely rewritten in a
different way.
Is there any chance of posting the macro's code into an email for this
public mailing list to have a look at? People sometimes have
suggestions
about what might need to be changed or even some coding suggestions
sometimes!
When Writer crashes it used to often be due to Java. Is it possible to
turn java off for a bit?
Tools - Options - Advanced/Java
and then untick the box that enables java in LibreOffice. If the
program
grumbles about it then you can always switch it back on the same way.
Another possibility is the memory settings
Tools - Options - Memory
and just ramp everything up quite a lot. Maybe not the number of
steps you
can take back but the amount of ram per object and the total ram allowed
for the whole document seem like good ones to increase!
Regards from
Tom :)
Thanks for the reply Tom, reading your response has prompted me that
there may be some pertinent information I had forgotten to include.
Because the document is a work document in needed to leave it in word
format, so I was trying to save it as a .docm document so that it
could be used back at work. As Writer appeared not to be able to
handle the document I opened the document in Word 2013 which handled
the document quite happily.
Another issue I had was the document had track changes activated
without any changes in the document having been committed. This
process seems to function differently in each of Word 2002, Word 2010
and Word 2013 and Writer didn't seem to be able to handle this
functionality at all. Edit -> Changes -> Show is selected by default
(I'm assuming this is Writer's equivalent of Track Changes, if it
isn't then I can't find any support for that) but Writer did not show
any of the changes that had been done, it displayed the document as if
all the changes had been committed. For example, all the text that had
been deleted, instead of showing the text with a line through them as
Word does, Writer did not display the text at all.
I have just done a test now with Writer using its native format, with
Edit -> Changes -> Show / Record options selected and it seems to be
recording changes by user albeit that it doesn't know who the user is
(probably because I haven't specified that information in its
configuration), but even though it is doing this recording if I delete
any text I have typed in, it just removes the text rather than showing
it as deleted.
regards,
Steve
On 14 October 2014 23:44, Stephen Morris <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi,
I have a sensitive Architectural Design document created in
Word 2010
that contains macros, hence it is a .docm file. I have opened this
document
in Writer 4.6.2.3 and whenever Writer autosaves or I manually save
the save
process crashes Writer. Is there anything I can look at to try to
determine
why? Because of the nature of the document it is not something that
I can
release.
regards,
Steve
Writer "knows" who is doing the editing when it is both showing
and recording any changes being made. This information is gotten from
Tools > Options > LibreOffice > User Data. (This is the reason why you
should have some data entered in the User Data page.) So, when the
person who wrote the original text deletes something, Writer deletes it.
However, if the document is edited on a different computer, it will show
the deletion because the User Data is different. Furthermore, the
editing is done using a different font color. So, if three people are
editing the same document that has both show and record changes, it will
contain three font colors.
Dan
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