Format Problems after latest updates from Ubuntu

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#1

Folks,

Early this morning everything was fine...

I just applied the latest updates for 14.04.2 LTS and there are a bunch of bold characters & numbers showing up in various locations. These seem to be almost random and are usually single occurrences (character and/or number) in a field.

I have tried to reenter the data and tried closing and restarting the task to no avail...

Ideas???

Cheers,
Jay

#2

Problem solved, I had two spread sheets open and when I exited out of BOTH of them and restarted Calc and reloaded the data all is well.

The cause of the initial problem is unknown...

Cheers,
Jay

#3

You may be able to trouble shoot a bit.

Unzip your odt and open files to see if the characters are also there with regular editor.
See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LibreOffice about half way down page.

This will give you something to submit to both Ubuntu and/or LibreOffice.

If you start seeing other unusual things popping up on the screen, do a memory check.

Inch by inch, a cinch, yard by yard, twice as hard.

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
Can you boot-up a LiveCd or LiveUsb and see if the files open fine that way
- or alternatively login as Guest but then you'd have to have the files on
a usb-stick or something.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: