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Thread ID: 79659	2007-05-27 22:32:00	Open Office installation	Thomas01 (317)	Press F1

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553721	2007-05-27 22:32:00	As several people lately have pointed out the benefit of Open Office I decided to look at it again. I found I had removed it from my computer some years ago but the PCWorld disks for Dec 2006 and June 2006 both had the latest version. I found the Dec disk would not work, but I did get it to work using explorer to access the disk. June 2006 worked fine straight off. But neither gave me the program - after installing, apparently with no problems, all I had was an shortcut icon on my desktop taking me to a load of installation icons on another display. I tried using these with winzip - no joy - all advice welcome! I did uninstall my first attempted installation before trying the other disk. Tom	Thomas01 (317)
553722	2007-05-27 22:48:00	Have you tried looking under all programs/open office 2.2? I think thats what it should be under if it's the latest version.:rolleyes:	wratterus (105)
553723	2007-05-28 03:26:00	Download it. Unzip. Run the setup.exe.	pctek (84)
553724	2007-05-28 19:46:00	Download it. Unzip. Run the setup.exe. It loads the install files onto your desktop	Tony.br (4018)
553725	2007-05-29 05:47:00	Well I have got Open Office running - thanks chaps. Now I have another problem. In MSWorks spreadsheets I am used to using Ctrl/: (2 key entry) to enter the date, and Ctrl/shift/: (3 key entry) to enter the time. I haven't been able to find an equivalent in Open Office and although it is a very long time since I used MS OFFICE I seem to remember having a lot of difficulty there too. Obviously there must be a simple method - what is it please? Tom	Thomas01 (317)
553726	2007-05-29 06:00:00	Have u read help if it installed a help file?	Speedy Gonzales (78)
553727	2007-05-29 06:23:00	Have u read help if it installed a help file? Sure have Speedy. With a fine tooth comb but found nothing. I also think that there is nothing in the MSWorks help file about the commands I use on a daily basis for date and time entering - I found them by pure accident years ago. Tom	Thomas01 (317)
553728	2007-05-29 06:33:00	Does this list of OO Keyboard Shortcuts (documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0313CG-KeyboardShortcuts.pdf) have what you need? ("open office shortcuts" to Google will find more). In general, you'll get much better information for open source software on the Internet . "Help" provided with the software is much harder to keep uptodate than online stuff. In this case, there's a documentation.openoffice.org site .	Graham L (2)
553729	2007-05-30 01:09:00	Does this list of OO Keyboard Shortcuts (documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0313CG-KeyboardShortcuts.pdf) have what you need? ("open office shortcuts" to Google will find more). Thanks Graham. But no I didn't find anything that helped. I have another problem (I think) I have put Open Office up so that I can help a friend who has just bought a new computer with Open Office installed. His looks the way I expected mine to be. Good icons on the desktop. All I have is a small icon on the taskbar (btm rh side). It goes to "quickaccess" or something, but vanished overnight and I had to re install everything to get it back. I wonder if I could copy this icon to the desktop - HOW? I looked into my OFFICE files and discovered that OFFICE enables me to input todays date by using Ctrl/shift/; in other words one more keystroke than MSWORKS needs. But this doesn't work in OPEN OFFICE which I thought was compatible. Comment please. Tom	Thomas01 (317)
553730	2007-05-30 02:36:00	"Compatible" doesn't mean "exactly the same, in all respects". Imagine the slavering of the Microsoft lawyers if this was the case. Basically, I think it means: "can use files from, and create files usable by, the other one". I'd browse and use any search tool on that documentation (documentation.openoffice.org) site.	Graham L (2)
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