Top post I am renaming this thread for the sake of clarity.
Harold Fuchs London, England On Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:24 AM [GMT+1=CET], Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:57 PM [GMT+1=CET], Cathy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Harold, What if I remove the entire program and try to reinstall with >> your help? The download and installation takes very little time with >> my computer. Maybe you could give me idiot instructions, such as step >> 1 click this or that? I can follow directions, I assure you. I'm just >> not sure what to do. I am willing to give it another try. I am not >> understanding most of what you're talking about. I did select >> Windows- that's for certain. The "unpacking" action did occur >> automatically. I did click setup and it just seemed to do the entire >> business again. That's about it. >> Delete and start again? >> Cathy > Cathy, OK, here goes. I'm going to try to be very simple minded; > please don't think I'm being condescending. > I'm cc'ing the forum again ... > > 1. First, got to Control Panel and double click Add/Remove Programs. > Is OpenOffice in the list? > > If not, then it's not installed; go to #2. > > If it is in the list, then it's already installed and you should be > able to run it from Start>All Programs>OpenOffice.org>Writer. > > If that works then stop; you have finished; go to step #6 to tidy up. > > If it doesn't work then do as follows: > a) Look in the System Tray (bottom right of the screen) for a grey > icon with a picture of two flying birds on it (like a kid's drawing > of gulls). If the icon is there, right click on it and then click > "Exit Quickstarter". If the icon wasn't there, that's fine too. In > either case: > b) Go back to Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs, select (click) > OpenOffice and click Remove. Tell it you are sure you want to remove > OpenOffice. Let the removal process finish. > > 2. So now OpenOffice isn't in the list from #1. > > Now delete any and all folders that may still be left that got > created by your previous attempts to install OOo. If you removed OOo > in (b) above then some/all of those folders will have been removed so > don't be surprised to find stuff missing. > > Also delete the file you downloaded. > > 3. Go to www.openoffice.org and press the big green Download button. > You'll see a list of Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, etc.). Click > the word Windows in large blue letters on the pale green background. > You'll be told how to contribute.I guess you might not want to do > that yet ;-) Just click "Continue Download". > > What browser are you using? You should be offered the option to save > the file to disk. Choose that and start the download. A file named > "OOo_2.0.4_Win32Intel_install.exe" will get downloaded. Make sure you > know where that file gets put. Different people download to different > places. Many download directly to their desktop. I don't like that so > I download into a special folder reserved for the purpose. Also, > different browsers behave differently. For example, Internet Explorer > assumes you will download to the desktop but gives you the option to > tell it otherwise. I use Firefox. It downloads to a place that you > tell it once and it remembers till you tell it differently. > > Perhaps downloading to the desktop is simplest ... > > 4. Once the file has been downloaded, *disconnect* from the internet, > shut down your anti virus software and also shutdown any firewall(s) > you are running - including Windows firewall (got to Control Panel, > double click Windows Firewall and disable it by checking the > appropriate box). Antivirus and/or firewalls sometimes interfere with > software installation. Nothing to do with OOo. Don't stay connected > to the internet without those running. > > 5. Now run (double click) the program you downloaded in #3. Follow > the instructions which I can't remember - sorry. I think Express > Installation is what you want. You'll be asked for the name of a > folder into which the OOo installer (the thing you downloaded) is to > unpack itself. I think it'll offer the desktop. Choose that. > > What should happen is that the installer will unpack itself into your > chosen folder and then automatically run "setup.exe" from within that > folder. It's this that really installs OOo. All the rest was > preamble. > > Once this process has finished you should find a new "program group". > Click Start, then All Programs, then OpenOffice. You should see a > list of "components": Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, Draw, Math. If so > then you are done. If not, then complain. > > 6. Tidy up: delete (or copy to a safe place to avoid having to > re-download if your machine crashes badly) the installer program that > you downloaded in #3. Delete the folder that got created in #5. Start > your firewall(s). Start your Antivirus. Connect to the internet. > Don't connect till the firewall and AV are running properly. > > If you get any error messages during any of this, note them down > carefully so you can tell us what they were and in which step(s) they > occurred. > > It's actually a very simple process, even though it doesn't read like > it. 10-15 minutes perhaps. > > You can run OOo in one of several ways: > 1. From Start>All Programs>OpenOffice and then choose the component > you want. > 2. Once only, start Writer as just mentioned and go to Tools>Options. > Click the little + sign next to OpenOffice.org. A list will open. > Click Memory and check the box labelled "Load OpenOffice.org during > system startup". Click OK and close Writer. This will put the "gulls" > icon I mentioned in (1a) above into the System Tray. Subsequently, > right click on this icon and choose the component you want. The icon > will stay in the System Tray till you either Exit Quickstarter it as > described above or you re-boot the computer. After a re-boot, the > icon will re-appear automagically. > 3. Double click a previously saved OO document/spreadsheet/... > > Hope this helps. > > Harold Fuchs > London, England > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
