Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer 4.6.2.3 Failure With Word Document

On 10/18/2014 08:41 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 10/15/2014 10:09 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > The macros are very specific to that 1 specific version of MS 
> > Office.  To
> > use the file in MSO 2007 or 2013 or 365 then you might need to have the
> > macro rewritten.
> >
> > If you had them rewritten for LibreOffice then you probably wouldn't 
> > ever
> > need to rewrite them again, except to add improvements or the fairly 
> > rare
> > times that a relevant bit of functionality got completely rewritten in a
> > different way.
> >
> > Is there any chance of posting the macro's code into an email for this
> > public mailing list to have a look at?  People sometimes have 
> > suggestions
> > about what might need to be changed or even some coding suggestions
> > sometimes!
> >
> >
> > When Writer crashes it used to often be due to Java.  Is it possible to
> > turn java off for a bit?
> > Tools - Options - Advanced/Java
> > and then untick the box that enables java in LibreOffice.  If the 
> > program
> > grumbles about it then you can always switch it back on the same way.
> >
> > Another possibility is the memory settings
> > Tools - Options - Memory
> > and just ramp everything up quite a lot.  Maybe not the number of 
> > steps you
> > can take back but the amount of ram per object and the total ram allowed
> > for the whole document seem like good ones to increase!
> >
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> Thanks for the reply Tom, reading your response has prompted me that 
> there may be some pertinent information I had forgotten to include. 
> Because the document is a work document in needed to leave it in word 
> format, so I was trying to save it as a .docm document so that it 
> could be used back at work. As Writer appeared not to be able to 
> handle the document I opened the document in Word 2013 which handled 
> the document quite happily.
>
> Another issue I had was the document had track changes activated 
> without any changes in the document having been committed. This 
> process seems to function differently in each of Word 2002, Word 2010 
> and Word 2013 and Writer didn't seem to be able to handle this 
> functionality at all. Edit -> Changes -> Show is selected by default 
> (I'm assuming this is Writer's equivalent of Track Changes, if it 
> isn't then I can't find any support for that) but Writer did not show 
> any of the changes that had been done, it displayed the document as if 
> all the changes had been committed. For example, all the text that had 
> been deleted, instead of showing the text with a line through them as 
> Word does, Writer did not display the text at all.
> I have just done a test now with Writer using its native format, with 
> Edit -> Changes -> Show / Record options selected and it seems to be 
> recording changes by user albeit that it doesn't know who the user is 
> (probably because I haven't specified that information in its 
> configuration), but even though it is doing this recording if I delete 
> any text I have typed in, it just removes the text rather than showing 
> it as deleted.
>
> regards,
> Steve
>
> > On 14 October 2014 23:44, Stephen Morris <samorris@netspace.net.au> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >      I have a sensitive Architectural Design document created in 
> > > Word 2010
> > > that contains macros, hence it is a .docm file. I have opened this 
> > > document
> > > in Writer 4.6.2.3 and whenever Writer autosaves or I manually save 
> > > the save
> > > process crashes Writer. Is there anything I can look at to try to 
> > > determine
> > > why? Because of the nature of the document it is not something that 
> > > I can
> > > release.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Steve 
      Writer "knows" who is doing the editing when it is both showing 
and recording any changes being made. This information is gotten from 
Tools > Options > LibreOffice > User Data. (This is the reason why you 
should have some data entered in the User Data page.) So, when the 
person who wrote the original text deletes something, Writer deletes it. 
However, if the document is edited on a different computer, it will show 
the deletion because the User Data is different. Furthermore, the 
editing is done using a different font color. So, if three people are 
editing the same document that has both show and record changes, it will 
contain three font colors.

Dan

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