Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 16356
Equations imported from MSWord documents cannot be edited
Last modified: 2003-09-08 16:53:10 UTC
Equations in an MS-Word document imporeted into OOo 1.1beta2 cannot be edited. Double-clicking on them results in an error: "Error activating object: General OLE error". I have tried this pretty long documents (you can find one in the provided URL (change the filename for index.html to see an HTML representation of the same file).
Just testes the document with the option of Loading and Converting MathType objects (Options>Load/Save>Microsoft Office>MathType to OO set to [L]), then OOo 1.1beta2 crashes using the document detailed in the URL.
Setting the tools > Options >Load/Save > Microsoft Office > MathType to OO set to [L]), and then trying to load this document caused a nasty crash on XP, with two error messages, one from Writer, and one from Windows. The error msgbox from Windows read 'The exception unknown software exception (0xe06d7363) occured in the application at location 0x77e73887.' I had to go in and unmark it before loading the document.
This appears to be a duplicate of issue 16175 with the same error message. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 16175 ***
No, this is of course NOT a duplicate of issue #16175. Here, we have a OLE-Error message when trying to activate the object, and not a program crash.
On Linux, it is of course NOT possible to activate MS Equation objects without converting them. the mentioned crash will be fixed in next release (OO 1.1 RC)
The attached document does cause a nasty program crash on XP. The two error messages appears, and Writer completely disappears from screen and in task manager. Read my description again. On XP, the attached document causes a crash. The error messages are the same as issue 16175. If it isn't the same as issue 16175, ie we are dealing with three different problems, I'll open up a new issue for the crash.
Partly right... The crash which occurs with this document is handled in issue #16175, which will be fixed in OO 1.1 RC (I tested it with an internal pre-release build). This issue here is originally about the "General OLE-Error" which occurs, when you try to activate an object, of which the Server application is not installed on the system (e.g. on a Linux system, there you will never have an MS Equation). This Error message is a LEGAL message and does Of COURSE NOT describe a program crash. Thus, this issue will be closed as "WONT FIX" or "WORKSFORME", because it is never good to have "mutating" issues, where the original description turns into a different description. It is VERY difficult to handle this (I now it from my job as Software QA).
Equation objects from MS Word can be editited in OO on Linux. They have to be converted to OO Math objects. This happens, when switching on the conversion in "Tools.Options.Load/Save.Microsoft Office". In OO 1.1 Beta 2 it will crash, when you try to activate an OLE object (see issue #16175), but OO 1.1 Beta1 will not and also the soon released OO 1.1 RC.