On Tuesday 12 December 2006 20:56, Paul wrote: > > [snip] ...I would like to just download the writer [snip] > > You cannot download just the word processing component. You will have > to download the entire suite. You can, once downloaded, install just > the writer component, however this is not recommended. OOo is a fully > integrated suite and as such if you only installed one component, the > space saving is not justified. > > /paul
I should add that having the entire suite may have an unexpected, but nice, bonus. Recently I had to recover whatever data files I could from a dying hard drive for a client. The file system and partition table were already trashed/gone, so I used photorec. It did recover many MS Office documents, but the photorec software labeled almost all of them as doc files, regardless of whether they were doc, xls, or ppt (something I didn't know until later; but it at least did recover a great many files the client had given up for lost). Since I use OO, I used that to open the files up to see how many were corrupted (*very* few it turned out). I was depressed how few xls files were recovered, so I started going through the doc files first. To my surprise, OO was able to open the xls and ppt files mislabeled as doc files without a problem. I then renamed the files so they had their proper extensions. I doubt this behavior would have happened in MS Office, and I also doubt it would have happened had I only installed Writer. Instead I would probably would have assumed they were corrupted and deleted them. I'm glad I installed the whole suite. -- Fail to learn history-repeat it. Fail to learn rights-lose them. Learn both-get screwed by previous two groups. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
