On 01/11/2010 03:17 PM, George Avrunin wrote: > I am running Fedora 12 x86_64, but this problem goes back to earlier > versions. (In fact, I think I recall some discussion of it on the list > a year or so ago, but I couldn't find that when I searched so maybe I'm > imagining it.) > > I have some colleagues who prefer to use Word (even to edit LaTeX source > files!), partly because change tracking sometimes makes it a lot easier to > keep up with what's happening to multi-author manuscripts. So I need to > use OpenOffice's change tracking and I set Tools -> Options -> Writer > -> Changes to color the changes "by author". That works fine in the > particular session, but once I close OpenOffice, the setting is lost and > I have to redo the setting every time I start OpenOffice. > > I asked about this on the Writer forum at OpenOffice.org and was told to > remove my profile (which I had already tried) and, if that didn't work, > to install the rpms from Sun. I used yum to remove all the OpenOffice > stuff and installed the Sun rpms to see if it made a difference, but > that version keeps crashing when I start it up. I imagine there's > something I need to reconfigure (I was told on the forum that "there > are several threads here about install under Fedora"), but before I put > in the time to see if I can make the Sun rpms work and then find out > whether they have the change tracking settings problem, I thought I'd ask > here and see if anyone else is having this problem with change tracking or > has a solution with the Fedora rpms. > > Thanks, > > George > Sorry for taking so long to respond but I am still getting caught up on the list. I have not tried what you are asking but I have found that starting OOo from the command line can show what is going wrong on startup. I do know that there are differences between the Original OOo versions and the Fedora versions that make it hard to solve some problems on the OOo list from my experience. -- Robin Laing -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
