On 11/13/2011 02:07 PM, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote: > Hello, Jay. > > I should have said that it’s in Writer only. I’m using Libre Office > 3.4.3 (build 302), from the Ubuntu repository. I’m using Gnome Classic, > not Unity (and on a fairly dated computer). > > Today was a disaster, but also may have led to a discovery. Having tried > everything else, I resorted to purging Libre Office altogether from my > computer and reinstalling from scratch. Same problem. > > Going on the supposition that the problem was specific to a particular > document, I reconstructed the complex document I was working on, > starting with a new layout, styles, and all the components copied from > various places. That took me most of the day (and I’m not finished yet). > Everything seemed to be working properly now; then, when I copied in the > text from one particular file (a .docx file that I received from someone > else), the problem began again. > > I noticed what seemed to be a space at the end of each paragraph (which, > incidentally, is a very common feature of Microsoft files copied into > Open Office or Libre Office). Now, though, the application would quit > every time I tried to delete one by backspacing over it or using the > delete key. After many failures I managed to get rid of them all (I > hope) by selecting “cut” from the menu, or pasting other text over the > mystery space. > > I saved one of these characters and pasted it into Character Map to see > if I could identify it (and so be able to search for it in the future), > but it won’t allow me to paste it in. > > If this is the source of the problem (and of course I don’t know for > certain that it is) I would hardly expect an application to quit because > of the presence a particular invisible character. > > That’s today’s episode of the saga!
Perhaps you're running into this bug: <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42639> [EDITING: Writer crashes on copy and pasting] Note: I've not tried to replicate (yet). -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
