Google open office portable and you'll get various hits. You also get hits on portable MS office although I don't know if it is done by MS or some hack.
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Fred Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > Does the [current version of] Open Office install like MS Office with > registry entries that make it difficult / impossible to run it from a > portable hard drive (without using some specialty utility such as U3), or > can it simply be installed on a portable hard drive and run from any machine > it is plugged into (like Eudora can be, if the settings/data directory is > set to be the program files directory, or some directory on the portable > hard drive)? > > Does installation of Open Office mess with the desktop? (like an > installation of Star Office did when I installed it many years ago. After I > installed Star Office, I couldn't find anything.) > > I may just try it and see, but I'd like to know what to expect. I have an > external USB/Firewire data hard drive, and I'd like to install Open Office > on it, with just the individual WP, SS, Pres, etc. programs being accessible > through a shortcut. I don't want any registration of file extensions to > automatically open with Open Office apps. > > Yes, I'm running Win2k or XP on the various machines the portable hard > drive might be plugged into. > > TIA > > Fred Holmes > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
