Thank you Jeremy, Mauricio & Doug,

I followed Jeremy's recommendation to delete the Ooffice library
preferences. I followed Mauricio's & Doug's recommendation to check
out Neooffice. It's very nice.

Bernie

On Nov 15, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Doug Burke wrote:

>
> Bernie,
>
> There is/was a problem with OO and the recent 1.1.2 X11 update from
> apple: for instance
>
> http://www.nabble.com/Recent-Apple-x11-update,-Open-Office-will-not-
> open-t2598935.html
>
> The page includes a work around for the problem. I *think* that it is
> only a problem for the 1.1.2 Apple X11 update (ie if you update to
> 1.1.3 the problem has been fixed).
>
> As an alternative I've had good luck using NeoOffice - it's based
> on OO
> 2.0 but has a more Mac look and feel. It can be grabbed from
>
> http://www.neooffice.org/
>
> [once you download the 2.0 beta 3 version don't forget to also
> download
> the patch set - I think it's at revision 7 at the moment]
>
> On Nov 15, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Bernie Walp wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have success (or trouble) with Open Office 2.0 on the
> > newer Macs, the ones with the Intel processors?
> >
> > I ask because I installed openoffice.org's Intel version, opened one
> > file, closed it, and since then have never been able to start
> > openoffice--it shuts down right after displaying the pretty Open
> > Office trade-mark. Deleting & reinstalling doesn't seem to help.
> >
> > Thanks for any perspective,
> > B.w
> >
> > P.S.: Perhaps this is my punishment bothering to read M'Soft files
> > mass-emailed by university administration office workers :(-Q
> >
> > P.P.S.: else perhaps it's punishment for ignoring everyone's advice
> > never to install anything with a version number ending in point-zero
> >
> >
>
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