*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 92345 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/92345
I think I just had this happen to me. I'm using Kubuntu 6.06. with
OpenOffice.org 2.02-2ubuntu12.6.
Doing my thesis on OpenOffice, and, of course, need to export to .DOC so
my committee can read it. Right after doing so, OO crashes when I open
the original .ODT document to continue editing. Strangely, the .DOC
file opens just fine. I've imported no tables from the web or anything.
All tables and drawings were made within OpenOffice. I couldn't find
any URLs with special characters. It really just seemed like the export
to .DOC process did something to OpenOffice, so that a few seconds after
I open the original .ODT, CPU load skyrockets and it, and sometimes
everything, freezes. (I know I've got problems when the fan speed goes
up, and up, and up). I tried the same original .ODT on Kubuntu 6.10,
and it seemed to be okay with it.
It's also possible it crashed before I exported to .DOC when I was
working on the captions to imported Calc tables, trying to put them
above the table rather than below. Two tables in succession were not
cooperating with me when I was trying to place them (they are anchored
to paragraph, if it matters), and they sort of got mixed up and as I was
trying to disentangle them things froze, but I can't remember if that
was before or after the export. I have a .PDF archive of it so my
committee could see what the thesis was looking like (since .DOC format
doesn't export well), in which the tables and captions are correct, so I
can't remember the order of things.
I think it froze on me messing with the tables, I got them right
(anchoring to page, I think), exported to .PDF, things seemed okay,
exported to .DOC, and now it won't let me open the original .ODT file
without freezing. I think the first and second sets of freezing might
be different issues. The computer had been on all day with me working
on the thesis, which I should know better than to do. It was pretty hot
when I forced a shut down (laptop).
Hope this helps. I've reinstalled OpenOffice once already, which
allowed me to read on of the .ODTs that freezes, but not another, and
when I opened that one (the one I exported to .DOC, by the way), it
freezes and makes me unable to open the one that did start working
again. Other .ODT files (much less complicated in terms of features)
seem to read fine. I'm going to try purging OpenOffice and reinstalling
it again. I'll add another comment if anything changes.
Thanks!
Scott Menzies
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Some documents crash OpenOffice.org when exporting to .doc
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95067
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