On other thing: You might want to try Alt-Tab first... there might just be a hidden prompt in the background. This sometimes happens when a file is saved as .doc (or other non-OOo format) and OOo warns about loosing some formating.
Rob Winchester --- Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clive Francis wrote: > > >Dear sir/madam > >I have been using Open Office for over a year without any problems on my > >Sony Viaio using Windows XP. > >I have a peculiar problem. I have a text document I created yesterday, that > >will not close. I have tried every way I can think of to close it or delete > >it, but nothing works. The 'permanently open' document is also preventing > >me from closing down my computer, or from opening any other Openoffice > >documents saved in my hard disc files. > >I would be grateful for any suggestion as to how I can fix this. > >Do I need to uninstall and re-install? If so, will any saved Openoffice > >documents be lost? > >Help please > >Clive Francis > > > > > Interesting problem. You can not close the document? > > * Is the document saved? > > You can not delete or copy a document that is currently open; at least > you can not while using Windows. When you choose File | Close or File | > Exit, what happens? > > If you can not either close or exist OpenOffice.org, can you press Ctrl > + Alt + Delete to open the task list, find OpenOffice (it may be called > soffice) and then end the task from there? Be warned, this is likely to > KILL the running process or thread and as such will NOT save any open files. > > You may also want to try to right click on the instance running in the > task bar and exit that as well. I think this is called the quick start > or something like that. > > Sorry for the lack of details, i am running from memory and I do not use > Windows at home. (well, not much anyway). > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.sxw > My Macro Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm > Free Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ===== Rob Winchester Download OpenOffice today! __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
