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Hi, how can i get libre office writer to work with "docx" file formats
that contain OLE Objects with video or music. Mi profesora siempre me da
file word documents that contain OLE objects and when I click on them they
don't work and Libre office just freezes and crashes. How can I get them
to work and I have installed the libre office java plugin in synaptic.
Sounds like a bug - can you provide a link to a test document?
Best,
Joel
Hi 
Perhaps increase the memory settings in
Tools - Options - Memory
Crashes used to be associated with java usage most of the time. Can
you try switching java off?
Tools - Options - Java/Advanced
and untick the tick-box at the top so that a "Java runtime
Environment" is not being used in LibreOffice. If you ever get an
error message asking for you to use java in LibreOffice then it should
be reasonably easy to tick the box again. Hardly anything needs java
now. It's only Base now and only then if it's using the internal
back-end.
Regards from
Tom
Hi Tom,
Increasing the memory didn't work. Libre office still crashes and I can't
figure out why it does that when i click on the object. Also when i
turned off java and clicked on the object it then asked me to turn on back
Java in libre office.
I can't send the actual word document because its too big, its 6.3mb and
at my school we can only send a maximum of 2mb. Also I don't know if the
libre office mailing list would allow me to send attachments in compressed
file formats. But it would be in 1mb parts. So anything else I can try.
Since its a mp3 file that is in microsoft word document why won't libre
office just tell like rhythmbox to open the file or vlc player? Can i set
such an option? Also libre office doesn't allow me to copy the ole object
and paste it on my desktop so I can then try and open it with a program
like rhythmbox or vlc player. Is their a way i can enable such a feature?
Since it keeps crashing libre office.
Hi
6.3 Mb file is huge!! Does OLE mean embedded? Is it possible to just
link to an external file and keep the music outside of the document?
Regards from
Tom
Hi,
Yeah 6.3 word document is huge. Yes it is embedded into the word document
and I can´t copy it, to paste it into an external link. I don´t know
what to do because this semester, I only had one class and next semester I
will have about 10 classes. In my school, all professors will give
documents with embedded objects. Any other ideas?
Hi Nikolai,
nikolaigauntiet@estelacm.sld.cu schrieb:
Hi,
Yeah 6.3 word document is huge. Yes it is embedded into the word document
and I can´t copy it, to paste it into an external link. I don´t know
what to do because this semester, I only had one class and next semester I
will have about 10 classes. In my school, all professors will give
documents with embedded objects. Any other ideas?
A .docx document is a container format as .odt too. So you can inspect it with Windows file manager or you unpack it. Then you should be able to access the embedded object directly and copy it to another place. Then you can look at its file format and find a suitable application to play it.
If you remove it, LibreOffice will show some kind of "not found" at that place, but the file will become a lot smaller. Delete the now broken object and replace it with a hint for you, which file belongs to this place.
What operating system do you use?
Kind regards
Regina
Hi
Another way of following Regina's route is to;
1. make a copy of the file
2. rename the file-ending from .docX (or from .odt) to .zip
3. double click on the zip-file
4. look in the likely-looking folders until you find the object
5. drag that out of the document
To fully follow her route you might
6. delete the object from the zip-file
7. rename the .zip to .docx (or .odt)
8. open the file with LibreOffice and carry on with her 2nd-to-last
paragraph (create a link to the object and then delete the remaining
broken-object
Once you have done that sort of thing once or twice you realise that
you don't really have to rename at all. Just a right-click allows you
to "open with ...". Some OSes make it easier. It's toughest in
Windows because Windows tries to hide the file-ending. On Windows you
might need to tweak your machine a bit to make it easier and i only
know how to do that on Xp. It's probably possible on Win7 and Win8
but if i get into anything like this i reboot into Ubuntu or something
to avoid faffing around.
Regards from
Tom
Hi Regina,
I am using ubuntu 13.04, I don't understand what you mean by using windows
file manager. Is it possible to unpack a .docx file using the ubuntu
archive program that unpacks tar.gz file formats? Also libreoffice
doesn't allow me to remove it. Thats the problem if I could remove it I
would just put it on my desktop and then open it with vlc player.
Yes, docx files are really zip files. You can rename one from ".docx" to
".zip" and open it with any program that can deal with compressed files (I
believe the default software available on Ubuntu are able to deal with zip
files).
Once open as a zip archive, you'll most likely see the file somewhere.
Hi Nikolai,
nikolaigauntiet@estelacm.sld.cu schrieb:
Hi Regina,
I am using ubuntu 13.04, I don't understand what you mean by using windows
file manager.
I mean the file manager of a Windows operating system.
I work on Window 7; and when I rename the file to .zip, then I can open it inside the file manager which comes with Windows7, the same way as it would be a normal folder. That is a feature of Windows 7.
Is it possible to unpack a .docx file using the ubuntu
archive program that unpacks tar.gz file formats? Also libreoffice
doesn't allow me to remove it. Thats the problem if I could remove it I
would just put it on my desktop and then open it with vlc player.
Yes, it is a normal PK .zip format. When I use 7zip on Windows 7, then I even do not need to rename it. But 7zip opens .odt files directly.
Kind regards
Regina
Hi
Yes,
Windows file manager = a file-browser
In Ubuntu you can right-click on the .odt or .docX and choose "Open
with ..." and then choose "Archive manager", or the other "Archive"
option.
Regards from
Tom
Hi Tom,
that did the trick. changing the file name and opening it as a zip file.
thanks for all the help.