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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: When trying to insert an existing .ods (calc) spreadsheet into an .odt (writer) document, via Insert-Object-OLE Object - Existing file, error ensues: The operation on "filename" was started with an invalid parameter. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-writer-1.9.112-1.1.0.fc4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Save existing spreadsheet as .ods 2. From writer choose, Insert-Object-OLE Object 3. Choose "Create from file..." 4. Locate file 5. Select OK Actual Results: Error ensues as defined in description Expected Results: File should have been inserted. Additional info: This did work in various incarnations of 1.1 under earlier FC releases. Have also tried using an older .sxc file to try to import that without success.
after you select the file is there "//" at the start of the path in the file location shown in the insert ole dialog, if so change it to "/" manually and see if that makes it work. I think it's a small problem of the file selecter.
Fantastic! That was it, just didn't notice the pair of "//" at the beginning.... Thank you - as this is easy enough to work around now.....