On 10/08/2010 05:41 PM, Michael wrote: > On 10/08/2010 03:46 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: > >> On 8 October 2010 09:13, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> This is just a point of idle curiosity. >>> >>> I have used OOo for many years, currently 3.1.1 (from OOo, not the >>> repos) on Fedora 11 x86_64. I do not have MS Office installed on any of >>> my computers. >>> >>> Recently I have been working on an Impress presentation (on Scribus, >>> not OOo) that I will give to a local Linux user group at the end of >>> November. This evening the group had a meeting, so I brought my Impress >>> file with me on a USB stick. >>> >>> The meeting is held in a classroom at a local university. My purpose in >>> bringing what I had done so far on the USB stick was to see if it >>> worked with the projector in the classroom. I did not bring my computer >>> with me. The university maintains OOo on just about all its computers, >>> all of which run XP. >>> >>> With the classroom computer running XP I looked all over for OOo, but >>> apparently it was not installed on the computer in this classroom. Just >>> to be sure I hadn't missed it I decided to double-click on the Impress >>> file. I reasoned that if OOo was installed on the computer, >>> double-clicking on the file should launch Impress and the file. >>> >>> I was stunned when MS Office Powerpoint appeared on screen with my >>> Impress file. >>> >>> I did not know that MS Office had OOo import filters. I knew that OOo >>> does a great job of opening MS Office files, but I thought that MS >>> ignored OOo. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> That is interesting. You may also like to know that there's a portable ( >> www.portableapps.com) version of OOo (3.2.0 currently) that you can install >> on your USB stick and carry with you. It runs from the stick and doesn't >> install anything on the host computer. In particular it doesn't touch the >> host's Registry. And it's free :-) >> >> No, I am not paid in money or in kind by portableapps.com; I'm just a happy >> "customer". >> >> >> > And PortableApps is much better than that nasty U3 software that comes > preloaded on many USB drives. >
Make sure you get a USB drive without the U3 style software. Even deleting and formating the USB stick, I still get 2 drive letters and half the time I cannot safely remove it from Vista since as long as I have 2 drive letters, you cannot remove letter or "device" while it tries to be 2 letters and 2 devises at the same time. SO make sure it does not have any portable apps pre-installed. I learned the hard way. I bought it to use the portable app version of OOo and a few others from its 4 gig storage since I wanted more storage for them than whay I ended up with a 1 gig thumb drive. I have used that portable OOo app to demo OOo on others' computer who did not want me to install the full OOo app until it was demo-ed. Most time they want the full version after that. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
