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I'm not sure what the problem is in this last comment, so perhaps I'm not getting what exactly he/she means by "share a file across a network," or at least what kind of network is involved. I work with a mixed network that includes Mandriva (KDE), Debian (Gnome), and Windows XP, and edit, save, and print shared files all the time. Each one of the three I mentioned has its own way of doing things, but once you work that out, everything is mostly fine, though I do have to say that XP (either flavor, Home or Pro) is the crankiest and most demanding. Where Openoffice is concerned, Debian with Gnome is the simplest - you just access a share open a file, edit, print, or save it. Mandriva with KDE needs a little more, but the simplest way is to use smb4k, which creates a mount point in your home folder. I put a link to that on my desktop, and Openoffice will open, print, etc. any share in that folder without complaint. This means I have to make sure that smb4k properly accesses those shares automatically when I boot up in the morning. Windows, I dunno. I mostly don't like to use it for editing because it seems slow even when accessing another Windows machine on the network, and it gets crazy about something like printing a file on another Windows machine to a network printer. But none of that is related to Openoffice per se, and rather than try to figure out whassup is and try to correct it, I mostly use the Linux machines for all the opening, editing, printing, and saving with openoffice. Much simpler. Anyway, I don't see Openoffice as the problem when working on a network. Each OS/distro/desktop seems to need something a little bit different, but all I've tried so far manage the task.

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