Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 55527
Error Activating Object: General OLE Error with Embedded MS-Word Table
Last modified: 2013-02-24 21:22:07 UTC
Inserting charts in Calc triggers "Error Activating Object: General OLE Error with Embedded MS-Word Table". Subsequent work is then possible, but seems to render OOo unstable: a crash follows at some points during subsequent editing. I observed this issue on beta versions of OOo, then thought it was gone with OOo release candidate (i.e., I did not observe the issue on my old system). I now have a brand new system with factory installed Windows XP SP 2 operating system. I do now observe the issue on this fresh system. Steps to reproduce the issue * Open a Calc spreadsheet * Enter a few data in columns A and B and select them * Insert - Chart - Create The chart is inserted, the error message appears (Error activating object: general OLE error). The user can press OK, and everything seems fine. However, the graph object cannot be selected (the status where the object is surrounded with green handles and the anchor is visible). Sooner or later, interaction with the graph results in a crash. Trying now, I could crash Calc right-clicking the graph. Details of the system: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2 Dell Latitude D810 Intel(R)Pentium(R)M processor 2GHz 797 MHz, 1.00 GB of RAM
wrong component, changed to chart
Seem to be an double. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 51938 ***
closed as duplicate
This has been a misunderstanding. I do not believe this is a duplicate of 51938. I noticed I reported a wrong error message (probably an erroneous copy paste from another issue). The error message (and the summary of this issue) in fact should better sound like: "Insert chart: Error Activating Object: General OLE Error". This happens on my system WHEN CREATING A NEW OPPENOFFICE CHART. It is not related to the presence of foreign OLE objects. I can now provide a particular action to crash Openoffice after having received this error: right-click the embedded chart. Could you please change the summary of this issue to read "Insert chart: Error Activating Object: General OLE Error". This issue merits further investigation as it applies to basic spreadsheet functionality in OOo, i.e., creating charts.
On the very same system, this issue does not anymore occur after installation of OOo 2.00 rc2.
On the very same system, this issue does not anymore occur after installation of OOo 2.00 rc2 over OOo 2.00 rc1.
So i close it as works for you.
closed