Um, he says Dell and Windows 8 Pro. I'll check it on my Windows 8 box. I installed successfully once before.
Daniel: Does your Win8 Dell have any special virus protection or other software beyond what is built into Windows 8? - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 06:26 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Open office issues. On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Dan Cowell <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi there, I’m not sure is I’m going about this the correct way but I have > an issue with Open Office. I recently downloaded the program to my new dell > tablet, which runs on windows 8 pro, but when I try open it I get a message > that reads; This application cannot be started. [context=shared] caught > unexpected exception! > > > Microsoft lists AOO 3.4.1 on their Windows 8 compatible list. I've used it on Windows 8 without problems. Is your tablet running Windows RT? Microsoft made a special version of Windows 8 for tablets, targeting ARM processors. OpenOffice won't run there. We require x86 or x86-64 processors. -Rob > > Any help that can be offered would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > P.s It runs fine on my windows 7 laptop. > > > > Sent from Windows Mail --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
