[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just downloaded and installed Open Office for the first time
I am a frequent business user but not in any way technically competent
I have a question which may sound naive but does not seem to be answered in
any of the FAQs etc
On the Openoffice installation wizard it says "openoffice.org 2.0 can be set
as the default application.............If you are just trying out
openoffice.org 2.0 you probably don't want this to happen, so leave the boxes unticked."
Here's my question:
IF I DON'T TICK THE BOXES HOW WILL I KNOW IF OPEN OFFICE IS ACTUALLY WORKING?
Regards
Ian Gibbons
All this does is set OOo to be the default application for opening MS
Office documents in Windows. If you have MS Office installed and want to
keep it as the main application for Word, Powerpoint, etc. files, don't
tick the box in the OOo installation. Then when you open a .doc, .ppt,
etc. file from My Documents or wherever, it'll open in the MS Office
application. To open OOo and see if it is working, you can just open it
from the Start menu. To see how well it works at opening an MS Office
file, right-click on it and choose 'Open With', 'OpenOffice.org'. Or you
can open the OOo application from the Start menu, then choose 'File',
'Open', and choose the correct file. If you've tried out OOo and are
happy with how it opens MS Office files and want to make it the default
application for opening them (changing it to how it would be if you had
selected the tick box in the installation), right-click on a .doc or
whatever file, choose 'Properties', then 'Opens With', then select
'OpenOffice.org'. Now when you open that type of file from My Documents,
My Computer, the desktop, etc. it'll open in OOo.
Guy
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