Belle Hervey wrote:
I'm not sure I should be using Open Office. I am just a home computer user for my own entertainment and genealogy. Recently I acquired a new computer with Windows XP. I have been using Windows '98 for the last five years. An acquaintance told me I could download free, Open Office to use as it was as good as MS Office 2000 that I've been using. - mostly for word processing, but would like to use a spread sheet, data base and something like Powerpoint. I just haven't learned how to use those programs yet. MS Office Suite is so expensive. It is not in my budget, as I'm retired on a small pension.
Hmmm...it seems to me the problem you are having may not have anything to do with Open Office.
I downloaded Open Office onto my desktop when I was connected to broadband, setting up (with a lot of help) my computer. I use dial up at home. I'm not sure I got it installed correctly. I still have a zipped icon on my desktop plus another icon (unzipped) which appeared when I tried to install Open Office. I don't get a start page. When I click on Open Office, I see a whole page of 'documents' (little boxes) with numbers under them. When I click on one of them, I am asked what do I want to open them with.
It sounds to me like you downloaded a zipped (compressed file}. Fine. My guess is that when you clicked on the zipped file it decompressed the file giving you the "little boxes with numbers." But that doesn't install the program. If I am correct, there should be a file named setup in the same directory. Click on that and the installation should start. If you get an error message saying you need to install another program, you can find that program on Open Office's website. Install it as above.
1. Download 2. unzip or decompress, noting where it unzipped to 3. install from that directory
I don't know how the Welcome, OpenOffice.org 1.1 ReadMe came up on my computer a few minutes ago. I was working on my Genealogy Program and when I closed it,your ReadMe file was open on the desktop. I downloaded the zipped file a almost two weeks ago before I connected my computer at home. I was only able to connect my computer up at home three days ago, at which time I tried to install Open Office. I may not be educated in computers enough to use OpenOffice. I certainly can't do any programming. This ISP that I am using probably won't be good very long because I'm getting ready to install SBC DSL in two or three days.
This has nothing to do with Open Office. This is how you install files on Windows.
Another possibility is that you didn't download the right file. You want the binary download for Windows. Again, look at the website for the Windows binary.
Eric Jackson
Thank you for answering my email - whatever the answer is. Right now I don't have enough information to use Open Office. Belle Hervey
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