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On Monday 07 May 2007 08:51, Robin Menneer wrote: > > Thanks for the info which is totally beyond me but I understand where > > you are and I appreciate the explanation. A million miles from my > > pedestrian use of Open Office, but OOo does hang up on me on times. > > Robin OK, if the problem is with Open Office hanging, then a good way to see if you can discover the problem would be to open OOo from a command line call. That way, it will open as usual, but feedback will be given in the command line. Try - Open your console program and type in ooffice -writer and press enter. As the call there uses writer as an example, it will call the OOo writing program. Now, you can use it as normal, but, if it falls over, the terminal will have some clues (hopefully) as to why it crashed. You may or may not be able to discover the problem from the errors reported in the terminal - they can be fairly cryptic at times! But somebody may well be able to spot the issue. There are more technical ways of discovering bugs - gdb for example is useful - but they tend to be fairly complicated for the normal user. I would give the method above a go and see if it picks up anything of note in the first place. Cheers, Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html