Dan & Johnny, Thanks for your help. I've now done that and have everything where I want it I do have the Quickstarter in the system tray, but I like having shortcuts on the desktop. Maybe just from using Windows for so long, but as the saying goes, "Works for me!" I'm looking forward to using OO. Gail -------Original Message------- From: Dan Lewis Date: 4/6/2007 8:41:44 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Gail Leatherwood Subject: Re: [users] Opening OO On Friday April 06 2007 7:24 pm, Johnny Andersson wrote: > 2007/4/6, Gail Leatherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I just downloaded OO. I have all the elements. I have my user > > name and password. However, the only items on my desktop are the > > installation shortcuts, not an entry to OO itself. I have to go > > to "All Programs," and then open just one application at a time. > > How do I get to the tutorials? Is there a way to put the OO > > shortcut on my desktop so I can open the whole thing and select > > the application I want? What I've got seems awfully clumsy--there > > must be an easier way! Thanks. > > G B Leatherwood > > If you didn't do anything special while installing OpenOffice.org, > then (if your operating system is some flavour of Windows, that is) > there should be a quickstarter in the system tray. I think (as I > don't use the quickstarter myself) that you right click it and then > select what kind of document you want to create. > If you already created a document, just double click that document > and it will be opened in OpenOffice.org. > Of course you can create shortcuts to the desktop. Just do as you > would do with any other kind of shortcuts. Just drag and drop them > from the Start → All programs → OpenOffice.org folder to the > desktop. Keep the Ctrl key down when dragging. That way you make a > copy of it, rather than just moving it. > > Johnny Andersson Copy to Gail.
