On 01/05/2008 05:02 PM, M Henri Day wrote: > > Hmm. I tried to download the 880KB docx file to which Gary provides a link > above, but my experience was not quite as happy as his : not only was I > unable to open the file - OpenOffice 2.3 got stuck on a seemingly endless > «waiting for external application» - but neither could I close the > programme. I was forced to shut my AMD Athlon 64 X2 machine manually, and > when I rebooted to Gutsy, I found that I couldn't open my Swiftweasel > 2.0.0.11 browser. I was, however, able to open Firefox 2.0.0.11 and tried to > download the file again, with the same results - OOo 2.3 hung, but > fortunately without totalling Firefox. To get Swiftweasel to work, I had to > re-install the deb package. Perhaps I'll just have to listen to Matthias > Bauer's suggestion and wait for OO.o 2.4, which, it is said, should be > released in April, before trying to open a docx file - if Winter comes, can > Spring be far behind ?... > > Henri
Me thinks that you have other problems... :-) Both files load ok for me on all (U)OOo 2.3 installs, including even (albeit slowly) on a 800Mhz/128Mb Thinkpad. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
