On 10/03/2007 01:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I bought a disk frolm you that had Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint as > titles. I installed the Word portion, but do not know what i have. After > install, > I opened and notice about 6 or 8 icons with only 1 KB each and all have > different title. What did I buy and how do I use it? I am confused as you can > > tell. I prefer phone help if possible. Thank you. Melvin >
Melvin, This is a mailing list which exists to support users of OpenOffice.org All answers are given by other users who volunteer their time. Your post and all information are publicly posted, so please refrain from posting any personal information that you do not wish to be public on the internet. To answer your question(s). 1. OpenOffice is a free software suite which is compatible to Microsoft Office. You can download it directly from: http://www.openoffice.org/ 2. You didn't buy a disk from anyone on this mailing list, or OpenOffice.org. Please contact whoever sold you the disk and ask them for support. If you can advise as to who you bought the disk from, then perhaps some of the folks here can help steer you in the right direction on getting help from whoever you purchased it from. 3. Simply because the software is free doesn't necessarily mean that you got a bad deal by buying it on CD from someone. The program is rather large and many folks on dialup connections would rather purchase or receive a CD from someone instead of spending 6-10 hours downloading over a slow dialup line. Was this your case? So, now a few questions & guesses: - What operating system are you using? OpenOffice can run on Windows, MAC, Linux, and Solaris operating systems, so it's helpful if you let folks know what you are using. - Who did you buy the software from? Do they have a website & if so can you provide a link? - How did you get the information to post on this users list? Was it a link from http://openoffice.org, or did whoever you bought the CD from just tell you to post here for support? Note: this is an important one, so please be sure to let us know. - You say that you have 6 or 7 icons, do they look anything like the icons provided here: http://www.openoffice.org/ - the one's on the right underneath "OpenOffice.org 2 Components:"? If so, then hopefully when you click on them you will open an OpenOffice program & welcome to OpenOffice (OOo) :-). A good place to get started with OOo is to first review http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/new.html then http://support.openoffice.org/index.html You are not subscribed to this mailing list so you may not see all the replies to your query. Please reply to [email protected] only, messages sent back to my email address will be ignored. See http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for additional information. cc'd to Melvin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
