2009/10/15 Helene Bigler <[email protected]>: > Dear Support Team:
I just want to explain that we are not a support team. We are users just like you, with different experience. Some of us asks a lot of question, some answers most of them and some do both just as much. I guess that I'm in the last category. > I am absolutely petrified to change from Word / Excel on Vista to your open > office. However, even though I purchased my computer with Windows Word / > Excel already installed about a year ago, it seems it has decided my > 'license' is no good and unless I spend some $300 + I can't use it without > going thru a rigmarole of tabs, pop-ups and other assorted garbage to access > it! > Thus.....YOU were recommended to me. In most cases a good choice. > Can I keep all the files I already have on this now non-licensed Word? Yes, but as someone already pointed out, they might not look exactly right in OpenOffice.org, so they problably need some tweaking. That's because the MS Office formats are not as open as the ODF fomat (the format that OpenOffice.org use by default, also known as the international standard ISO/IEC 26300:2006). > Will downloading you simply 'transfer' my information to you? I'm not quite sure what you mean there, sorry. ”We” are, as I said, just users like you. You just download OpenOffice.org, just like you would download anything else. When done that, you need to install it. I am not sure how to do that in Windows, since I'm a Linux user, but it shouldn't be much harder than to just double click the file you downloaded and follow instructions. First time you run OpenOffice.org, you will be asked to register. You can do that IF YOU WANT. You DON'T HAVE TO do that. Just select ”Never register” or something like that (”Already registered” could be an option, I think). > HELP! I don't want to loose anything - I am petrified! You don't need to be that… > If I go into remove files to remove Windows Word/Excel will I do. . . what? > Damage my files? Loose info? ???? I can see no reason why you should lose information, unless you erase it by purpose or get a hardware error (which would have nothing to do with OpenOffice.org). You don't need to remove Excel or Word. You can actually run them at the same time as OpenOffice.org is running. > I can type, but I am not totally literate in computereze. Learning can be stimulating and fun. > Please advise me. I hope I just did. :) > Respectfully > Helene Bigler Johnny Rosenberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
