Stephen Pett wrote:
The new download facility is very unclear and over complictated, where it
used to be simple.
I was not able to update as even when I did guess at the correct
selection
(what I wanted was windows, v 2.2.1 and UK verision which wasn;t even
listed) it wasn't available so I gave up.
Abbreviations are not necessary, and the whole thing is very difficult to
follow.
Steve
Not sure how it could be clearer unless you are using a different web
site from the one I'd expect you to use.
1. Go to www.openoffice.org
2. Click the big green "Get OpenOffice.org version 2.2.1" button
3. Click the big green "Download OpenOffice.org" button
4. Choose your Operating System - I presume Windows.
5. Wait till the file is downloaded to the folder *you* choose (desktop,
perhaps)
6. Run the downloaded file
On the other hand, there is no "UK version". You can install a UK
English dictionary so that your documents will be spell checked in that
language but the default GUI is in US English. Even I, a renowned
pedant, don't care about that. There are "language packs" that make the
GUI appear in French, Spanish and other languages but there isn't one
for UK English. You can also download several different dictionaries to
have different documents checked in different languages or different
paragraphs/sentences/words within a document checked in different
languages. See the Help about dictionaries and/or browse the
documentation pages at http://documentation.openoffice.org/
If you have a slow and/or pay-by-the-minute internet connnection you may
prefer to buy the software on CD. There's a list of vendors linked from
the download page under "Order Openoffice.org on CD". Expect to pay not
more than USD/GBP10 for the CD plus P&P. Please note that we make no
recommendations, nor do we provide any guarantees about any of the
vendors; caveat emptor.
Alternatively computer magazines often carry OpenOffice on their free
CDs/DVDs; just make sure (a) it's the lates version of OpenOffice and
(b) it's the version for your OS - the Windows version won't run on
Linux and so on.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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