[wplug] Re: MISM mentor program

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

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On Monday 10 February 2003 09:15, Bill wrote:
> Alex
>
> As far as you know, is there anything 'unusual' in this word doc?  My
> OpenOffice has never-ever crashed when opening any M$ documents.
>
> I know I've successfully opened 97, 2000 and XP docs.

Russ' screenshot shows what they tried to achieve:

http://www.zhrodague.net/~russ/doc.png

That's the problem, as soon as the "features" are there, people can't 
seem to get enough of them, so you get combo boxes and backgrounds and 
frames for what could have been done with simple text...

I've OpenOffice.org freak out on me once before, with a 7MB PowerPoint 
presentation that consumed 100% of CPU when opened, created a ~150MB 
temp file, and generally put an impossible strain on the machine. It 
wasn't an immediate crash, it was something like an endless loop in 
this case. I just had to kill it after a while.

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