Possible work-arounds?
Dear Susan, I have no idea why OpenOffice is not working for you, unless perhaps your computer’s OS is too old or too new for the version you have installed, or you have caught a virus, but maybe it would be worth uninstalling OpenOffice and trying LibreOffice, they are very similar. I used OpenOffice for many years, enough that I forget how many (maybe 10 or 12?), until recently, when the latest upgrade seemed to introduce some glitches. None of them were serious enough to cause me to drop OO if the LibreOffice alternative had not been available, but I decided to switch. I have used LibreOffice occasionally on Linux for about as long as I was using OpenOffice on the Mac, and have now switched to LibreOffice on my Mac. Some features of LO are better than OO and others not quite as good, and there are a few slightly different ways of doing things in the latest LO on the Mac that I’m still having to come to grips with, there can be a learning curve even with similar apps. I'm not sure which of the two open source productivity suites is better, but there’s not enough in it to be worthwhile for me to change back to Open Office at this stage. I had to choose one of them though, because with different upgrade status you get annoying wrong version notices that you have to keep dismissing if you have both, and also some default app fluidity. I suspect you may have bigger problems than OO v/s LO, but it may be worth trying LibreOffice before you give up on the free software. By the way, OO and LO are alternatives for Microsoft Office (word, spreadsheet, drawing, etc.), and in my opinion they are better (at least for what I have used them for), regardless of price (MS Office is slow to launch and is not as user friendly in my opinion), but they are not alternatives for any Adobe app I have used. I’m not an Adobe expert or fan, far from it, but I wonder if you are trying to do something with OpenOffice that it is not programmed to do, and are crashing it. That would be extremely unusual, but perhaps may be worth checking. From the way you say you are working around your problem, I have the impression you may just want a writing app, not a full office suite. The best writing app I know of, if you only want writing, not spreadsheet etc., just a sort of super word processor and project organiser, is Scrivener. It's not free but it's very reasonably priced, a one-off payment, not subscription, and a discount price for the occasional major upgrades, and a free trial period so you can try before you buy. I can’t remember how long I’ve been using it, and I can’t imagine how I would cope without it, and I only use a small fraction of its full capability, so it might be worth considering if you are a writer. In case you are wondering, I seldom use the WP in my productivity suite any more, Scrivener has been my normal writing app for several years, but I use the spreadsheet in the productivity suite a lot and the drawing application occasionally for simple stuff that doesn’t need CAD software. I fear this response may not be genuinely helpful, and I apologise if that is the case, but I’ll send it through on the chance that it may offer you something. Regards, Peter. > On 20 Oct 2022, at 9:04 am, S P <greatoutdoors...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've come to loathe the scammy Adobe and WORD services. I've paid them > thousands and they just keep wanting more. and more and more $$ So, I > decided to give Apache Open Office a try. > Unfortunately, even with the latest version, every document I attempt to > create crashes and loses info, even after saving. Everything is fully > updated. It just randomly crashes and I have to recreate. > > In addition, finding simple functions, like adding page numbers is not at a > intuitive and editing documents is a nightmare; make such a mess of things, > I actually print, edit by hand, and scan back in, so I can complete my > work, adding on needless hours of labor. > > So, I guess I will have to go back to the 2 biggest extortionists because > Apache Open Office has is slowed my work flow to a halt. > > Frustrated and tired of being fleeced, > > Susan > greatoutdoors...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
