openoffice.org combining file problem

[Charles Curley]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 09:22:04PM -0400, Robert Locke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just added a bugzilla report for this but was wondering if anyone here
> knew of a workaround or not....
> 
> My problem is that I need to be able to take a spreadsheet and embed it
> into a text document.  Under FC3, all worked great with
> Insert-Object-OLE Object-Existing File from inside openoffice.org
> writer.  But now under FC4, and, of course, the beta of openoffice.org
> 2, it appears to have been broken.
> 
> I am running the current updates-released versions openoffice.org-writer
> 1.9.112-1.1.0.fc4.....
> 
> Any suggestions on how to get around it?

Have you checked to see if this is a known OpenOffice.org bug?

Perhaps a more recent RPM package from OpenOffice.org will fix it.

Failing that, try falling back to 1.1.4 and see if that fixes it. I
run 1.1.4 and 1.1.109 together on two FC3 machines here, and have no
problems.

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