Re: [libreoffice-users] ver. 4.2 copy/past bug

Hey, thanks, guys. That's a ton of help. I've a bit more time today, and 
will pursue the problem.

There's also some great stuff in your email, Tom, for my carefully kept 
notes on LO, and especially on Calc., which I use a great deal every 
day. You took real time to give me that much info. I seriously 
appreciate this effort!

Thank you both for the quick and thoughtful response.

Tom

On 02/18/2014 01:51 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> If something worked and suddenly stopped working as if by magic then
> the first thing to try is to rename your User Profile
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
>
> Renaming is better than deleting because you might have tons of stuff
> in your profile (templates, galleries, Extensions, file-backups etc)
> that you don't want to lose.  If renaming or deleting the User Profile
> DOES work then you might be able to copy chunks of your old one back
> and that can be a good way of trouble-shooting down to pin-point the
> problem.  If you have deleted the User Profile then that is, of
> course, impossible.  If you just renamed the User Profile then you can
> leave the trouble-shooting to a day when you do find time (or never
> but at least it's possible).  If renaming DOES NOT help then you could
> rename the old one back without suffering any losses.
>
> On the other hand it is quite possible that you don't have anything
> exciting in your User Profile or that it might be a good time to start
> afresh with reconfiguring LO's settings and with installing fresh
> Extensions that you need now rather than trying to keep using ancient
> ones or ancient versions of ones you don't really use any more.
>
>
> If the problems happened straight after upgrading to a newer version
> then reverting to an older version makes a LOT of sense.  Preferably
> an x.x.4 or higher.  It's that 3rd digit that shows greater stability.
>   The 4.1.4 should be about as solid as they get but some people are on
> 4.0.6 to get the extra stability of that although they miss out a lot
> on features and compatibility with MS formats.  Although i have some
> machines still on 3.5.(something) without really missing anything but
> then my needs are modest for those machines.  Anyway, 4.1.4 is a good
> release and it's worth carrying on following the 4.1.x branch as it
> gets developed further and stability increases further.
>
>
> However 30+ worksheets in a single file and 1Mb means it's quite a
> huge file!  If you can't break it up easily (or even if you can but
> don't want to) then it is well worth considering using a specialist
> spreadsheeting program instead of Calc/Excel.  Both the later are
> designed to integrate well with other modules/programs within an
> office suite but means you are carrying extra baggage and your
> computer is using resources to make it easy to switch into
> Presentations, Drawing programs, and all sorts of stuff that you
> probably don't need while using the spreadsheet.  A specialist tool
> focussing resources on, and designed purely for handling, spreadsheets
> might be better.
>
> Gnumeric uses the same formats as Calc natively and can also handle
> the relevant MS formats and is often found to out-perform Excel and
> even Calc especially on low spec. machines.
> http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric
> >From their News section the quick link to directly download their
> latest Windows version is
> http://people.gnome.org/~mortenw/gnumeric/gnumeric-1.12.9-20131128.exe
> NOTE this directly downloads an Exe file!!!  I NEVER usually give
> links like that because you don't know me and have no reason to trust
> me so you really should try the first link and have a look around for
> yourself before attempting any downloading!  The only reason i give it
> this time is because i found it difficult to find on their site so i
> just wanted to make it easier for you.
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
> On 17 February 2014 23:24, Tim Lloyd <tim.lloyd@gmx.com> wrote:
> > Tom,
> >
> > my thoughts FWIW. I would suggest restoring the latest version, deleting
> > your user profile and trying again. This has been known to work in the past.
> >
> > What operating system are you using?
> >
> > is this an old file which has seen a number of different LO versions?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > On 18/02/14 03:33, Tom Cloyd wrote:
> > > I'm reverting to ver. 4.1.4.2, after spending almost 40 min. this morning
> > > trying to isolate a problem. I could reliable crash the problem by trying to
> > > copy two cells in Calc to another location in the same sheet. I got this
> > > error message:
> > >
> > > /vector::_M_range_check
> > >
> > > /I'm working and have no time to go beyond posting the problem here.
> > > That's just the reality of my life this Monday morning. I'd attempt a bug
> > > report, but every time I've tried that I've gotten lost in the sheer
> > > strangeness of the process. No time for that either.
> > >
> > > I can offer to share the spreadsheet in which the crash occurs, for what
> > > that's worth. It has maybe 30 sheets and is about a meg. in size. I did find
> > > that removing about 15 of the sheets appeared to stop the problem, for
> > > unknown reasons.
> > >
> > > t.
> > > //
> >
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