At 18:03 08/09/2008 -0400, Paula Glendinning wrote:
I've been using Open Office on my MacBook since last fall, and I've
been able to save spreadsheets as excel files or make pdfs from them
to send to people using pcs.
This week I made some new spreadsheets, and I can save them and use
them in open office, but if I try to make a pdf or try to save them
as excel spreadsheets, I get an error message:
Error saving the document (name): Inadmissible path. The input
syntax is invalid.
I'm not a Mac expert, so this is something of a guess.
This suggests that the path for the file you are trying to save does
not exist. The first place to look is at Tools | Options... |
OpenOffice.org | Paths. Are all the paths listed there valid? Do
the folders still exist? Have you perhaps deleted a folder or set of
folders that included the place where one of these paths ends? The
strange things is that you say that you can save new documents -
presumably as .ods - but not as .xls or export them as .pdf, whereas
I would expect all of these actions to lead to the same default
folder. Are you perhaps saving the .ods versions in another folder?
Another possibility is that the path to your required folder contains
illegal characters. Is it possible that you have used a rogue
character which is acceptable to your Mac operating system but not to
OpenOffice? Or that you have perhaps created a path which is simply
too long? Try saving somewhere else - possibly higher in the filing
system tree (with a shorter path) - to see if that changes things.
I tried downloading the open office software and reinstalling it,
but I get the same error messages.
That makes sense. It's unlikely that the installation of OpenOffice
itself is the problem. And configurations such as the paths referred
to above are saved elsewhere than in the program installation, so
that they are personal and preserved across upgrades.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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