Hello Mr. Ward,
It seems to me you have been jumping around quite a bit to get
OpenOffice installed and are starting to lose track of all you have
seen, so I'll try to clarify a few things.
On 21-Jan-09, at 14:08 , Don Ward wrote:
Dear Sirs,
Before installing Open Office 3.0, that I had sent to me , I read
your" read me" info and saw nothing for an iMac in system
requirements. I thought that Mac was supported as shown on your site?
OpenOffice is certainly supported on the mac; I've used it myself on
an iMac G5 and an Intel iMac.
I previously installed "Open Office" sent to me via mail and
installed only to discover that I did not have X11 which I
discovered on a "read me" that was I thought, a bit long and not too
easy to read. Not the same as most read me's. I then returned to
the program after the X install and to my dismay got the X11 box and
not Open Office. It was confusing.
Although OpenOffice versions up to 2.x required X11, that is no longer
the case with OpenOffice 3.0. In other words, with version 3.0, the
installation procedure should be as follows :
1) Put the CD in the drive (I assume you have a CD, since you say
Open Office was mailed to you)
2) Find the file OpenOffice.app on the CD.
3) Copy that file to your Application folder.
4) Open it.
I've personnally never used a CD (I download OpenOffice directly), so
I don't know exactly how those are packaged. However, the process is
simple enough that there shouldn't be much variation. Basically, just
copy the application to your Application folder, and open. No X11
needed. Also note that each vendor packages their own CD their own
way, and that only a minority of them ship the Mac OS X version.
The Open Office takes forever to open up and at this point I am
thinking I don't need this program that takes forever to open. Is it
installed right? I have since upgraded X11.
OpenOffice shouldn't either take too long a time to load. It takes
less than 15 seconds to launch OpenOffice and then open a new text
document. This was on my 1.83GHz 2 year old MacBook, running Leopard.
So first confirm that the version of OpenOffice you got is really
version 3.0 (some vendors may be selling an older version, although
they really shouldn't). Then try to delete whatever OpenOffice files
you installed/copied and reinstalling by sticking to the steps I gave.
If that doesn't work, or you don't have version 3.0, then I would need
to know exactly what you have and what you have done (something like
"I copied this file to this location") in order to help you further.
Finally, note that I'm sending this directly to you because you are
not registered on this mailing list. Please reply only to the mailing
list.
Good luck !
Alexandre René
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