GURPS Spaceships Design Spreadsheet

[ericbsmith]

Originally Posted by DaltonS

I'm having some problems with OpenOffice 3.3 crashing when using this version. It doesn't happen immediately, but after about 10 or 15 minutes the screen starts to flicker (as if some macros are cycling in the background) and when I try to save the sheet I get an error message. I can still work on the design and copy/paste the output sheet to another file, but in the end I have to discard my work. I'm currently installing OpenOffice 3.4 and will let you know if this fixes the problem.

That's rather odd all around. I haven't made any significant changes to the Macros in the OpenOffice version in a long time, and nothing they do should cause problems - they're rather standard Macros (likely, this is some sort of memory leak in OpenOffice).

You might also try LibreOffice, which is an offshoot of OpenOffice and has been significantly updated. I still use OpenOffice largely because when I tried LibreOffice it's Excel imports tanked badly on the sheet. However, in my (minimal) testing, once OpenOffice had saved the sheets LibreOffice had no troubles opening it.