Re: PPT interoperability wrinkle

2014-06-21 Thread Julian Thomas
On 21 Jun 2014, at 12:45, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Does it happen on the same system or on another system? Looks very much like > a font replacement gone wrong (i.e., the bullet/line is taken from a special > font that OpenOffice cannot find and replaces with another one, but that > specific

Re: PPT interoperability wrinkle

2014-06-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/06/2014 Julian Thomas wrote: When I save it as a ppt file and view it in ppt [2011 - Mac or late PPT on Windoze] it displays as expected, but when I then view the ppt file in OO I get a strange symbol instead of the dash. ... http://jt-mj.net/OO-ppt-wrinkle.jpg Does it happen on the same

Re: Updating to v. 4.1.0

2014-06-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 05:21:26 -0700 Carole Standifird wrote: > I have used openoffice for several years and love the product. I was > currently using v. 4.0.1 and was trying to update to 4.1.0. I tried twice and > both times it crashed my computer. I want to go back to the version I was > using

Updating to v. 4.1.0

2014-06-21 Thread Carole Standifird
I have used openoffice for several years and love the product. I was currently using v. 4.0.1 and was trying to update to 4.1.0. I tried twice and both times it crashed my computer. I want to go back to the version I was using, but cannot open it. Question: If I uninstall from the control panel

Re: Powerpoint Viewer 2007 refuses to open presentation saved with AOO 4.1 as PPT

2014-06-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/05/2014 Fernando Cassia wrote: I created a 64-slides long presentation using AOO. I saved this to PPT with the intent of later using a shareware PPT/PPS to video converter. But first I wanted to know if Microsoft's own Powerpoint Viewer would open the file. ... It doesn't open it. We are