Re: [Hampshire] OpenOffice.org 2.2.0 vs Word 2007 [OT]?

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Author: Simon Capstick
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To: Alan Pope, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] OpenOffice.org 2.2.0 vs Word 2007 [OT]?
Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:58:00AM +0100, Simon Capstick wrote:
>> Of particular importance to us is stability (no crashes) and gracefully
>> handling a wide range of RTF documents. Both of which are causing us
>> occasional problems within OpenWriter 2.2.0. Unfortunately I cannot
>> submit a bug to OpenOffice since the example documents for the bugs are
>> all confidential (Most annoying).
>>
>
> Can you not replace the text with something else, retaining the formatting?
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>


I've not managed to, although I can't honestly say that I've tried on
every document. I'll give the next bad document I find another go. The
curious thing is that Abiword on my Linux PC never fails with these
documents, and saving it as 'RTF (for older apps)' fixes it.

Simon