8.04, OO 3.0: problem with big document

What happens when you try to open the document from inside of Open Office Writer?

Does it give any errors?

What happens when you try to open the document with Open Office Writer from the command line:

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

Type:

oowriter yourdocumentnamehere

Does it give any errors then?

Hi Jim

Thanks for the info.

- To try to open the document from inside of Open Office Writer: it doesn't work.
- The terminal: it doen's work.

I don't get any errors. But the writer is hanging and I have to leave it by using Force quit.

Peter

From my searches on the web, there are a lot of complaints about Open Office and large documents. It appears that large documents in Open Office are generally best handled through Master Documents.

Here is one tutorial:

http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/tutorial/Create_A_Master_Document.html

You might also try opening the current document with a lighter weight word processor like Abiword.

Thanks, Jim.

Peter,

1.2 MB does not seem to me that big of a document size.

All openoffice documents are compressed zipfiles. What happens if you go to the file manager and extract it from there?
(right-click on the filename and choose extract here)

You should get an folder with all the content in different XML files. If not then maybe the zipfile is corrupt.

At least you should be able to find some content in the different files (recover text and imported images for example)

Hi Marco

Thanks for the answer.

My OO files have extensions like .doc and .xls. And if I right click in the file manager Nautilus, I don't have an entry called Extract.
Peter

The extension .doc and .xls means that it is in microsoft office format. So you are importing the files in openoffice.

Openoffice can normally read and write MS office file formats so this should be no problem.

Keep in mind that the conversion for openoffice could take a long time if your computer is slow. So maybe you have to wait a couple of minutes. Usually there is a status bar at the bottom showing the conversion progress.

If you get a not responding message, then just wait some longer, not responding means in this case possibly busy with converting.

If you can open the documents in windows using MS office then I would suspect a slow conversion being the culprit.

By the way. XLS and .DOC files are not compressed with zip so they cannot be extracted. I assumed you used the native format.

Marco