Before it was crashing every couple of minutes. xlxs file for 20 minutes or more without it crashing. Anyway, after installing the Java update, we worked on the. It downloaded with an (1) after the file name, so it seems that I had already downloaded it before when setting up High Sierra for her, but it let me install it again (or maybe I never installed it before.?). Then out of ideas about what to do, I searched for downloaded High Sierra Java from Apple's site.
Thinking it was a problem with the newest version of LibreOffice and High Sierra, I removed it (and all its associated files), then installed an older version, but that had the same problem. Well, we found that it would randomly and frequently crash with spinning beach ball cursor and the only option to force quit it. I've been using LibreOffice for years and suggested she use it too. I curse my Macs oddities way more than I curse at the PCs at work, except for cursing at the work itself. Mouse moves but nothing opens I have to power off at the back. She has taken over some financial responsibilities for an organization and needs to update existing Microsoft Office Excel files. I now use it on my Mac, my iPhone, my Chromebook, my Windows bootcamp partition, and at work on the PCs. Upgraded to Yosemite from Mavericks on a top end iMac with 3TB fusion drive and when I switch it on and open safari it's fine for about 5 minutes then I get the spinning wheel and I can't open anything else. My aunt has an older iMac that will only upgrade to High Sierra.