[PLUG] OpenOffice question

Tim Wescott tim at wescottdesign.com
Mon Sep 28 15:15:18 UTC 2009


Fred James wrote:
> All
> Running OpenOffice (2.2.1 on Mandriva 2008 if it makes a difference?)
>
> The sequence of events ...
>     Start OpenOffice
>     File -> Recent documents -> filename (happens to be an ods document)
>     Status message reads "Loading document"
>     Progress bar indicates about 50 percent complete and stalls for 
> about 3 minutes (give or take a few seconds)
>     An OpenOffice 2.2 Error message dialog box appears
>     Click OK and the Error message dialog box closes
>     The document loads successfully
>
> The contents of the Error message box ...
>     An International "No Entry" symbol
>     The message "General Internet error has occurred"
>     An "OK" button.
>
> The document does have links to other documents on the same machine, but 
> nothing to the Internet that I know of
>
> Is there a reason for OpenOffice to be trying to connect to the Internet 
> at that point?
> How would one stop this type of activity, or should one even try?
>
> Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
> Regards
> Fred James
>
> PS:  (My) Google(ing) turned up ...
>     a lot of people asking about the same error - but no answer that I 
> could see
>     a lot of people using OOo on MS - that's good to hear
>     some people experiencing this error with documents that did have 
> links to the Internet
> PPS: (My) search of the OpenOffice site (http://support.openoffice.org/) 
> did not yield anything that looked relevant (to me)
>
>   
Some versions/flavors of OOo check the 'net for updates (all of the 
recent MS versions certainly do).  It could be doing that.  Are you on 
the 'net when this happens?

Isn't 2.2 kinda old?

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Tim Wescott
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