Re: OpenOffice.org & Woody
%% craigw <craigw@lvcm.com> writes:
>> 3. stability. OpenOffice seems prone to crashing when opening Microshaft
>> crap that it can't handle. 5.2 is solid as a rock. If anything, it
>> may refuse to open the document, or open it and render it
>> poorly. But it will not crash. OpenOffice will crash. Then you
>> wind up sitting and waiting as you restart it. I do not download &
>> install nightly builds of OpenOffice. Perhaps this has improved in
>> the past month. I expect that if it hasn't, it will.
I haven't had any problems with 641C or the newly released 1.0. Maybe
the people who send me docs aren't knowledgeable enough to create such
difficult ones :).
c> P.S. It has been known to happen that I have worked on a document
c> for several days without saving, or even all week, then saved on
c> Friday. Not common practice, of course, but it has been known to
c> happen. When I realize that I have done such a thing, I thank my
c> lucky stars that I am using a stable program on a stable operating
c> system.
OpenOffice has an "auto-save" feature anyway. This saved my bacon a few
times back in the bad old 638 days when crashes were not uncommon on my
box.
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