Sita Lazenby wrote: > James Knott wrote: > >> I have never worked on a document that size, but my understanding is >> it's best to use a master document, that ties together several pieces, >> such as individual chapters. While I don't know the details about your >> situation or if Linux will make a difference, Linux is generally more >> stable and delivers better performance on the same hardware. If you >> actually ran out of space (combination of memory and swap) you could try >> making your swap file bigger. You can get "Live" Linux CDs or DVDs, >> which will allow you to see how well it works for your needs. You might >> try the one from opensuse.org. It should contain OpenOffice. >> >> >> > Thank you again for getting back to me. I'm a total beginner when it > comes to linux and don't want to end up in the situation I had with > Windows. I had been working with it for nearly 20 years, then it trashed > portions of my document without telling me that it was on overload. The > master document sounds the best bet if I could only figure out how to > get out of the navigation window! I suppose if loss of document content > wasn't so crucial I might be brave enough to give it a go and see where > I have problems. I tried it with chapter 1 to 23 which I have in a big > chunk, but couldn't seem to add a sub document to the end of that. The > second document seems to come up and wipe out the first. Good thing I > had everything on the flash drive. Will try the opensuse.org but my > problem there is once it is sitting looking at me, I don't know what the > commands are to make it do something else. Don't you just love beginners! >
SUSE usually has an icon for OpenOffice on the desktop. Once you're in OpenOffice, it's virtually identical to the Windows version. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
