open office lockup

[eddski]

I am using OpenOffice and tried to save the default file extensions for office 2000/xp, but now OO locks up and I have to force it to quit. Also, after I saved the file extension to be compatible with m$, it still defaults back to ODF. Any suggestions?

[Sef]

Have you tried going into Synaptic and reinstalling OOo?

[Aearenda]

Another thing to try is deleting (or renaming) the .openoffice.org2 profile folder in your home directory (it may have a different name if you have a different version of OpenOffice installed).

I regularly set this default for other people, and haven't seen it fail like this before.