As far as execution, I have seen OpenOffice run just as or far superior to Microsoft Office. The expense of Microsoft Office is high and more modest shops cant bear the cost of it. You might also look for some program that converts rich text on the clipboard to plain text (like Plain Clip on OS X), since that might remove any link back to OO and solve the problem. The best thing that OpenOffice does is as a rule free. Step 2: At the top-left of the Word window, click on File. One simple workaround is to copy text into an open Notepad window and then recopy it from there before copying into the citation window. If after restarting the PC, the app keeps crashing, then you can disable add-ins using the following steps: Step 1: Launch Microsoft Word. You could try raising this on the OO forums and point to this thread in the hope that someone will see it who knows more about how the clipboard works on Windows, but there doesn't seem to be much we can do about this.

So when you paste into the citation window itself (which belongs to Firefox), OO/Word can't perform its requisite action, which hangs Firefox, which means that OO/Word is permanently hung, because it can't continue until the citation window is closed. You can reproduce the hang copying text from OO/Word into another application while the Zotero citation window is open-the other application will hang until you close the citation window, at which point the text will be pasted. I don't know why any such action would be necessary, since you can of course paste text copied from a program even if the program has been closed (and even paste text from those apps into the citation window just fine if they've been closed and reopened since the copy), but this appears to be some fluke of the clipboard system on Windows.

Here's what seems to be happening:Īpps on Windows (or at least these two) appear to need to perform some operation when text copied from them is pasted, and until that action occurs, the target application hangs. Whenever I try to open a Word document (whether a blank document or a saved document), after a couple of seconds Word will usually freeze and then close. OK, for some reason I'm now able to reproduce this in both OpenOffice and Word. For about the past two weeks, the copy of MS Word 2019 on my Windows 10 home computer has been acting up. Re: OpenOffice keeps crashing by WilliamWH Fri 10:07 pm I am just not interested in looking for drivers and programs that run in Windows normal mode- if I can load alternative open source software that works without me having to do that.

Open office keeps crashing