Krill: You are correct! I had to drag and drop out of the Start Menu in order to have a Word icon on my desktop! (I work for an office that has banned freeware and OpenOffice.org is in that category.)
James McKenzie -----Original Message----- >From: "Kirill S. Palagin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sep 5, 2006 9:21 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [users] Long live Bill Gates! > >No need to be more intrusive then competitors - even MS Office is not putting >it's icons onto desktop (and never did, if I remember correctly). Office 2003 >installer even puts all ot It's icons in the separate folder under Start menu. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Keith Nichols [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 2:44 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [users] Long live Bill Gates! >> >> I had this same problem. OO should do this. >> However, WinXP made it very difficult to find the suite so I >> could place the shortcut on the desktop. I finally found it >> about 5 levels down. >> No longer are these things at C:\desktop\[/files/]. >> Keith >> >> pop.tele2.fr wrote: >> > I installed OpenOffice two hours ago. Most applications install an >> > icon on the desk at the same time so that the user can >> easily launch >> > the program. But not OpenOffice. Most applications have a >> file with an >> > icon and/or an understandable name that makes it easy to create an >> > icon on the desk. But not OpenOffice. After wasting two >> hours in vain, >> > I uninstalled OpenOffice, won't install it again this >> century, thought >> > of the tens of thousands of people who won't even have the >> chance to >> > try OpenOffice, and finally decided to buy a few Microsoft shares. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > --Utilisant le client e-mail r�volutionnaire d'Opera : >> > http://www.opera.com/mail/ >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For >> > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > >> > >> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
