Created attachment 113576 [details] 1.7Mb (ish) file (doc format) I double-click the attached file to open with LO4.4. It loads up LO, then rushes through the progres bar apparently loading the file then sits with a blank place (plus rulers) where the document should display. I have waited over 2 minutes before giving up. System Monitor says it is using 1.2Gb Virtual Memory and about 95 to 100% CPU. This latter is not constant so maybe it is in a loop rather than perpetual pause. I also have LO3.6 on the same machine. This displays the file happily in about 10 sec. System Monitor says it is using 1.4Gb and 90-100% CPU, although that doesn't stop my editing the file in LO. History of the file: (reason it looks like rubbish is given at the end) Originally created a long time ago in Word95 before copying over to the Linux box. I used it and edited it extensively in OpenOffice (pre v3.3) but have only wanted to refer to it in LO days very recently. I have tried saving it in odt format from LO3.6. This makes no difference to the LO behaviour, neither 4.4 nor 3.6. The original file is copyright, so I have used the tr command to change every letter and number to 'a'. This has messed up the appearance of the file and seems to have raised the page count from about 1300 to 6595. There were no images, headers, footers or footnotes in the original, it was all just text.
Attached document can not be opened with Word 2007 or Word 2013. Sorry but no reason to expect LibreOffice to be able to open it. Resolving invalid. As an aside, probably best to pickup an archived build of OpenOffice and if possible save doccument out to .ODT to bring it forward in an ODF format. You can obtain legacy builds of OpenOffice through 3.2.1 here: http://archive.services.openoffice.org/pub/openoffice-archive/stable/ or or Apache OpenOffice through 3.4.1 http://archive.apache.org/dist/incubator/ooo/ or through current AOO builds http://openoffice.apache.org/downloads.html And of course all LibreOffice project archived builds are available also: http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/ if you prefer to bring it forward incrementally.