Quite often, the only solution to serious issues is to uninstall and reinstall and that is NOT a good way to promote any program. I also found that updated versions could make matters worse, so I uninstalled the most recent version and went back a couple of versions. On the forum I've seen the advice 'the problem is in your computer' which is no help at all unless some sort of pathway or debugging tool is built into the software to help non-technical users solve issues. Finding these can be a nightmare unless you're a real 'techy'.

Clearly, something gets reset in the profile or innermost parts of the program. Gradually, I found the OO crashed within minutes of loading, irrespective of what I was working on. Luckily, I ALWAYS kept a backup of every document at the end of every day so I could usually CTRL C and CTRL V to copy images back into place. All was well for a long time and then the corruptions started. I recently put together a set of complex documents with many, many images in the text - some locked inside frames, others 'floating'. You only have to look at the OO forum to see how many problems people can encounter. For straight word-processing it works exceptionally well BUT, once you start integrating images into documents, then it can be prone to all manner of corruptions and crashes. In many respects, Open Office is a boon and, of course, it's genuinely free.

'Writer' excellent for basic wordprocessing, but prone to crashes and corruptions when you integrate images.

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