[CGUYS] Open Office installation on a portable hard drive

2009-04-08 Thread Fred Holmes
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

Re: [CGUYS] Open Office installation on a portable hard drive

2009-04-08 Thread mike
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 f...@his.com wrote: Does the [current version of] Open Office install like MS Office with

Re: [CGUYS] Open Office installation on a portable hard drive

2009-04-08 Thread Jim
Sounds like a good candidate to test on a virtual machine rather than put your setup at risk. Jim On Apr 8, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Fred Holmes 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

Re: [CGUYS] Open Office installation on a portable hard drive

2009-04-08 Thread John Settle
Fred Holmes 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

Re: [CGUYS] Open Office installation on a portable hard drive

2009-04-08 Thread Tom Piwowar
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

Re: [CGUYS] Open Office installation on a portable hard drive

2009-04-08 Thread Tony B
Someone asked me about a .csv they'd been sent last week, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that I didn't need to recommend she install *anything* in order to deal with it! Everything was possible for free from her browser. What really surprised me was how complex the free Zoho db app is. It