%% craigw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
