Need help w/master docs in OpenOffice 3.x

["Sarah Stegall" <sstegall -at- bivio -dot- net>]

Fellow Tech Writers:

 

I am appealing to the list for help as a last resort. Normally I would
not bother the list with this, but I have looked everywhere for some
help and have found none.

 

I write technical documents with OpenOffice Writer. The largest and most
complex documents are master documents. I created several of these in
version 2.x, some of which are hundreds of pages long. I upgraded to
3.x. Now these master documents crash the program when I am opening
them. Even master documents created in the upgrade, 3.x, begin crashing
the program after a few days (these are brand new master documents, only
a few pages long). This is a disaster.  Of course, since most of the
actual text is contained in the subdocs, which are unaffected, I have
not lost a lot of work. But now I am faced with the possibility of going
back and re-building a lot of master documents from the ground up.
Worse, I can no longer trust a tool I have relied on for years. 

 

Is anyone else using 3.x to create master documents? Have you seen this
problem? Do you have any suggestions? I have been raining inquiries on
the OpenOffice forums for weeks and have gotten no replies.

 

Info: System is Windows XP Pro 2002 with service pack 2, program is
OpenOffice Writer 3.1.

 

Thanks to the group for any help; feel free to reply privately if you
prefer.

 

Sarah Stegall

Senior Technical Writer

Bivio Networks, Inc.

4457 Willow Road, Suite 200

Pleasanton, CA 94558

sstegall -at- bivio -dot- net

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Free Software Documentation Project Web Cast: Covers developing Table of
Contents, Context IDs, and Index, as well as Doc-To-Help  
2009 tips, tricks, and best practices.
http://www.doctohelp.com/SuperPages/Webcasts/

Help & Manual 5: The complete help authoring tool for individual
authors and teams. Professional power, intuitive interface. Write
once, publish to 8 formats. Multi-user authoring and version control! http://www.helpandmanual.com/

---
You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as archive -at- web -dot- techwr-l -dot- com -dot- 

To unsubscribe send a blank email to 
techwr-l-unsubscribe -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
or visit http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/options/techwr-l/archive%40web.techwr-l.com


To subscribe, send a blank email to techwr-l-join -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com

Send administrative questions to admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com -dot-  Visit
http://www.techwr-l.com/ for more resources and info. 

Please move off-topic discussions to the Chat list, at:
http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/listinfo/techwr-l-chat