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Dear OpenOffice

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Dear guy who doesn't allow comments on his site,

Have you tried LibreOffice instead? If so, have you filed a bug report?

Sincerely, HN Reader.

Warren has been Informed.

You can stand down, now.

He could also want to contact Microsoft and file a bug report with them, since the problem only appeared after a Windows upgrade from some previous release to Windows 7, it looks like a Windows problem more than a OpenOffice problem. That's not a very promising road.

Another option would be to try LibreOffice (as pointed out by wccrawford) and see if whatever behavior Microsoft changed in Windows 7 wasn't already compensated for.

I don't see OpenOffice as a viable product right now. LibreOffice, at least, doesn't have the only serious rival Microsoft has in the uncoolness category behind the steering wheel. So far, they never failed to ruin perfectly good products and OpenOffice was not particularly good to begin with.

Are you serious? Windows 7 was in beta and RC publically for a very long time. Thats just lazy in my opinion.

Of course I am. If a new release of Gnome broke some code of yours (that sticks to documented APIs and worked fine on the previous release), you would file a bug, regardless of the fact you could have downloaded and built everything from their version control on a daily basis to test, even automatically. Why should we treat Microsoft any different? Even if I detected the problem in the first public alpha, I would file a bug.

If the code sticks to the API rules and a new release of the OS broke it, it's the OS that's buggy, not your code. If the OS maker doesn't fix the bug using the "you should have tested" excuse I question how much it respects its users and developers.

Dear Upset guy,

Try a different build (as it looks like yours is broken), consider using Go-OO (http://www.go-oo.org/) which is much better than straight OO anyway. Don't forget to uninstall before reinstalling and check your appdata folder for leftover config data.

Hope this helps, hugs and kisses,

iuguy

Going forward, the Go-oo project will be discontinued in favor of LibreOffice, as stated on http://go-oo.org/

That's a very good point, which I'd forgotten. Thanks ever so much for the reminder.

You are a funny bunny,

but

" Going forward, the Go-oo project will be discontinued in favor of LibreOffice."

http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/

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By the way people, I installed OO.org 3.3 beta for Mac from Oracle, should I nuke it for LibreOffice or is OO.org cool for now? Thx!

The biggest problem with Libre Office is that they have fixed passwords in the the spreadsheets (as in if one is set on the Excel spreadsheet, LO will respect it and demand it before you can make changes). Unfortunately, that means that I can't unprotect my company's timecard spreadsheet to fix the dates that OO (and LO) mess up.

Therefore, I'll just stick to my ancient version OO for now...

Dear..., it's spelled OpenOffice.org, not OpenOffice.

You were downvoted but I think this is an important point.

The subject appears to be clear however OpenOffice.org is called just that as OpenOffice is a different application and IIRC they had a slight trademark tussle and OOo ended up telling everyone that they had to refer to it as such not simply "open office". This was all eons ago in internet time and I can't find a good citation quickly.

There is also now possibility of confusion with Oracle Open Office (perhaps this is what you meant) which is a commercial version based on OpenOffice.org. Unfortunately one really needs clarity to be sure which software exactly he's complaining about.

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