Open Office - What's Going On?

[Newmacer2]

I just tried downloading the latest version of Open Office (4.0 I think) and it appears to download okay, but when I try to open it I get a message “OpenOffice” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should eject the disk image." I'm a member of the Open Office Forum, so I went there to see what was up. I get the following message,

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Everytime I use my Open Office spreadsheet, I get a message telling me I need to download the latest version, but I guess I can't.

Anyone know what's going on?

Thanks.

 

[Bear]

Sounds like your download may not have completed. Or they put a bad image up.

As an alternative, might I suggest the LibreOffice fork of Open Office?

 

[GoCubsGo]

I'd try to re download it.

 

[Newmacer2]

Sounds like your download may not have completed. Or they put a bad image up.

As an alternative, might I suggest the LibreOffice fork of Open Office?

Thank you Bear. I've not been that happy with Open Office of late, so maybe your suggestion came at a good time. Strange that I couldn't even get into the forum. Regardless of what Open Office is doing, it looks like the forum would be available. Go figure.

Thanks again for your time.

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I'd try to re download it.

I tried three times. Same thing happened.

Thanks though. I appreciate your taking the time to comment.

 

[oldhifi]

Open Office

Libre Office works well with OSX

 

[Newmacer2]

Thanks

Libre Office works well with OSX

I haven't tried it, but it sounds like it has fewer headaches, so I'm going to give it a whirl. Thank you.

P.S. Excel is the only thing I miss about Microsoft, so I'm hoping Libre will solve a lot of problems for me.

 

[OLDCODGER]

I haven't tried it, but it sounds like it has fewer headaches, so I'm going to give it a whirl. Thank you.

P.S. Excel is the only thing I miss about Microsoft, so I'm hoping Libre will solve a lot of problems for me.

There's your problem, right there. Microsoft issued A DCMA against open office, perhaps in error. Should be sorted soon.