So far, the process has been a fairly predictable mix of frustration (“how the hell do I set up styles in OpenOffice Writer???”) and pleasant surprises (“oooh… actually that’s pretty cool…”).

But now I’ve encountered my first proper bug… and it’s annoying the hell out of me.

All I want to do is add a set of “standard” colours to open office… Here’s a subset of them..

So… how hard can that be?

All you do is open Tools>Options, then select Colors from the treeview and you get a lovely dialog-box that allows you to edit/add/remove colours from the standard set.

“How hard can that be?”

It’s a piece of cake. Except when OO crashes…

I can add one color, but if I add a second in the same session (ie without closing OO and restarting) it crashes – EVERY time.

Now, I’m motivated enough to -

1. keep going
2. down-load the latest release (Since I’m on 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 is now GA c)
3. register with OpenOffice in order to look at the bug tracker and report the bug if it is still present in the latest release

But I’m not “normal” in this regard. My Mum, for example, would give up – concluding that OO “doesn’t work”….

As it happens, the download of version 2.3.1 has eliminated this bug, so everything’s tickety-boo, except that I’m slightly annoyed that I have to download the entire OO suite to move from 2.3.0 to 2.3.1