I agree with the suggestions. In fact when my XP install gets into a knot, usually logging off / rebotting will solve the issue (as it does with most things M$).
Failing the nice attempts, how about the universal hard reboot - turn it off - on a lap top usually holding down the power on button will do the trick. Of course this will mean that you will loose anything that is not saved and is not recommended but I've had to do it from time to time (as I'm sure many of us have that use windows). Paul On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:34:58 -0500, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clive Francis wrote: > > >Dear sir/madam > >I have been using Open Office for over a year without any problems on my > >Sony Viaio using Windows XP. > >I have a peculiar problem. I have a text document I created yesterday, that > >will not close. I have tried every way I can think of to close it or delete > >it, but nothing works. The 'permanently open' document is also preventing > >me from closing down my computer, or from opening any other Openoffice > >documents saved in my hard disc files. > >I would be grateful for any suggestion as to how I can fix this. > >Do I need to uninstall and re-install? If so, will any saved Openoffice > >documents be lost? > >Help please > >Clive Francis > > > > > Interesting problem. You can not close the document? > > * Is the document saved? > > You can not delete or copy a document that is currently open; at least > you can not while using Windows. When you choose File | Close or File | > Exit, what happens? > > If you can not either close or exist OpenOffice.org, can you press Ctrl > + Alt + Delete to open the task list, find OpenOffice (it may be called > soffice) and then end the task from there? Be warned, this is likely to > KILL the running process or thread and as such will NOT save any open files. > > You may also want to try to right click on the instance running in the > task bar and exit that as well. I think this is called the quick start > or something like that. > > Sorry for the lack of details, i am running from memory and I do not use > Windows at home. (well, not much anyway). > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.sxw > My Macro Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm > Free Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
