Vinny, did your computer come with a "trial" copy of the MS Office suite
installed? If it did, any file with extensions recognized by those products
would be set up to bring them up automatically, and when the trial period
has expired this would give you the kind of dialog you're seeing. If that's
what is happening, you need to change the "file associations" to use OOo
equivalents instead. Different operating systems have slightly different
ways of doing this, check system help to see exactly how.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] I downloaded!!!
Vinny LoGuidice wrote:
Ok how come I am getting the Username, initials, product key popup all
the time? How can I handle this? THanks!
<snip>
OpenOffice doesn't use a "product key". It asks you to register but that's
not mandatory. Sounds like there's some *Microsoft* product (Word? Works?)
which is either not correctly installed or for which you have not
completed the *mandatory* registration details. Microsoft products almost
invariably require a product key which is usually printed on the CD label
and/or printed on a sticky label on the CD box/envelope.
OpenOffice is *free* (as in "no cost") to download and to use on as many
computers as you like for whatever purpose you like; you can even sell it
if you can find someone dumb enough to pay. It does not require
registration. When you install it, OpenOffice asks you to register but you
can ie by saying "already registered". OpenOffice only asks you to
register so that the authors can keep a vague idea of the number of users;
registration buys you absolutely nothing, except perhaps a warm inner
glow. Support is also free and you don't even have to register for that;
just send an e-mail to this list. We *prefer* that you register but it's
absolutely not necessary (you might get that glow again) and, in any case,
does not require a key and does not generate any sort of reference number.
In Writer you can do either of two things:
1. Set it to *always* save documents in Word format.
Tools>Options>Load/Save>Always Save As and then select the format you
want.
2. Save "this" document in Word format. File>Save As and choose the
format; ensure the box labelled "Automatic filename extension" is checked.
Note that saving a file with a ".doc" extension does *not*, in and of
itself mean it gets saved in Word format.
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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