Good Morning,
Yesterday I down loaded OO 2.1. I'm a first time user, and spent several
hours last night doing a number of chapters in the self tutorial. After many
years of frustration with MS Works/Office and MS WordPad, I was more than
delighted with OpenOffice. A list member on another loop suggested that I try
OO
instead of MS Word, which I was talking about purchasing. I'm glad I went
with OO.
Perhaps if I tell you a bit about what my needs are with this program, it
might help me to communicate what my actual question/questions are for right
now.
I have done extensive genealogy work on my family tree. I'm at the point
now where I'm starting on a book for my other family members. I will be
downloading from my Family Tree Maker program in bits and pieces, all of the
collected information TO the OpenOffice program, to arrange in a book format.
So,
I'll also, be either by cut and paste or downloading information from various
web sites as well, to the OO program.
Last night, I downloaded my first page of information from my document
folder, the information did NOT come out right in the OO program. The second
item
I opened in the OO program, DID come out right, and I don't know what the
difference was.
I'll be honest here, I did NOT understand the instructions on the OO site to
save different formats to my OO program.
Upon installation of the OO 2.1 program last night I checked the below items:
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When you installed OpenOffice, you were asked to make a choice “Select the
file types that OpenOffice.org 2.1 will automatically open”. There were three
file types shown:
* “Microsoft Word Documents”
* “Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets”, and
* “Microsoft Power Point Presentations”
Thinking I understood what I was doing by checking the above items, chuckle,
how naive of me!! Do I need to go back and UPCHECK the above? If so, where
do I find this??
What do I need to do, to insure that the volumes of information I will be
adding to the book in my OO program, will open in the OO format?
Or perhaps someone can recommend a very user friendly set of instructions?
Thanks for any suggestions you can provide to me.
Cindy/Delaware
