[CentOS] Serious bug in OpenOffice.org Calc shipped with CentOS

Rob Kampen rkampen at kampensonline.com
Thu Aug 6 13:33:19 UTC 2009


Nicki
OO is one of the few packages I get directly from the sun/OO site. I  
install it in /opt and it works fine. You may want to remove the  
existing via yum first.

Rob Kampen
407-341-3815

On Aug 6, 2009, at 4:21 AM, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Until now I've been a happy user of CentOS. Everything just works(tm),
> and I don't care if application versions are slightly outdated.
>
> Next week I have to give a series of classes for a company that  
> recently
> made the switch to Linux. On schedule is a one-week course for Writer
> and Calc.
>
> And right now I discover that one crucial function of Calc, "fill
> series", doesn't work. Let's say I type "lundi" (monday) in one  
> cell, so
> I can pull Calc's handle to fill other cells with the days of the  
> week.
> Doing the same with "janvier" (january) does so with the names of the
> month. Well, this function is broken in OO shipped with CentOS. And I
> don't have the slightest clue as to why. Tried the same on a more  
> recent
> version of OO in Ubuntu, and it works like a charm.
>
> Anyone has a solution to this? This seems like a major nuisance to me.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki
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