[Wylug-help] OOWriter Disaster

[Scott Hodgson]

Dave Fisher wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 05:55:46PM +0100, Jamie Dow wrote:
>   
>> I'm running Kubuntu Hardy, and using OO 2.4 without any problems.
>> I've just tried opening some docs in odt that are about a year old (I've no idea when the 2.3 to 2.4 upgrade was made. I'll have done that as soon as it hit the Ubuntu repositories) I'm assuming they will have been authored on 2.3 - no problems opening them in 2.4, though they didn't have much fancy stuff in them.
>>
>> I guess you've tried reinstalling OOo from the repositories?
>>     
>
> Yep :-(
>
> But it does look like the OOo 2.4 build that I've got is the problem.
>
> Abiword reads .doc versions of the files created by 2.3 perfectly well.
>
> Dave
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Personally I would download the version from OOo website and install 
that.  See if the download you have is slightly faulty.