Opening MSOffice in Libre - Mac OS 10.8.3

I had begun using LibreOffice a month ago. I have lots of documents in MS Office 2004, a few in LibreOffice. Yesterday I upgraded to Mac Mountain Lion (10.8.3), which no longer supports MS Office 2004. I tried opening Word documents in LibreOffice, following the Help directions. Opened fine I could click in the document, but the moment I tried to do any editing in there, LibreOffice closed, and I got the message:
“To open “soffice,” you need a Java SE 6 runtime. Would you like to install one now?”
I hesitated because of all the Java security problems which Apple has been highlighting, but I decided to go ahead. Then, during installation, I got the message:
“The update “Java for OS X 2013-002” can’t be installed. A network error has occurred. Check your Internet connection, and then try again.”
I not only checked the Internet connection, I restarted. My Internet connection is fine.
This has happened twice now. (By the way, I was able to open Excel documents and edit them just fine.)
How do I access my MS Office 2004 documents with LibreOffice?

OP: @EdwardDolan

Hi

As far as I understand they in the process of removing Java from Libre office, that’s why most of it works with out Java installed. As yet they have not completely removed it. In the future it will also have better default integration.

This should solve your problem.
http://www.italovignoli.org/2012/08/libreoffice-and-mountain-lion-macos-x-10-8/

Good luck!

Actually, your link to http://www.italovignoli.org has nothing to do with the “Java SE 6” issue in this thread.

@EdwardDolan,

Then, during installation, I got the message: “The update “Java for OS X 2013-002” can’t be installed. A network error has occurred. Check your Internet connection, and then try again.” I not only checked the Internet connection, I restarted. My Internet connection is fine. This has happened twice now.

This sounds like a problem with the Java installation. I’m not sure it has anything in particular to do with LibreOffice. Have you tried the OSX support forums for help on getting the Java update to install?

I was having this issue also, and what appears to have solved it for me was changing a few settings in the Java control panel. After selecting the Advanced tab, I selected “never allow” and “never install” for JNLP File/MIME Association and Application Installation.

Wonder what bad things will happen now though…