On Jan 31, 2008, at 4:50 PM, lena burek wrote:
I installed the open office via the website, but I
don't know where it is on my computer. No shortcut
was intalled.
Where would I find the file on the hard drive to open
the program.
I assume you mean you *downloaded* the file, as installing would
take some action on your part. Go to the browser you used to
download the package and bring up the downloads window. If you are
using Safari, click on the "Windows" menu, and select the "Downloads"
item. The downloads window will have a list of every file the
browser has downloaded recently. The name of the file will be
something like "OOo_2.3.0_MacOSXIntel_install_en_US.dmg". If the
download completed successfully, there will be a little icon of a
magnifying glass to the right of file name. Click on that, and a new
Finder window will open up with the file already highlighted. Now
open the file by any of the usual methods.
The disk image will be added to your available drives in Finder, and
a new Finder window will pop up. Within that window will be some
ReadMes, the licensing info, the OpenOffice application, and an alias
[you might know of it as a shortcut] to your system applications
folder. Here's the part you have to do: drag the application file
where you'd like to have it. If you're happy with the system
Applications folder [the recommended location], then drop the app
right on top of that folder. Now you've installed the program.
Close the Finder window for the disk image, as it doesn't have the
sidebar we need now. Go to any other Finder window, and click on the
Applications bookmark in the sidebar. You now see the contents of
the system Applications folder. In there will be the "OpenOffice.org
2.3.app".
As always with the Mac, there is more than one way to get the job
done. You could also just put "OpenOffice" in a Spotlight search.
That's the blue magnifying glass icon on the far right of the menu.
It'll present a list of every file on your computer that has
OpenOffice within it, including browser bookmarks and emails. This
may take awhile, depending on how big your drive is. Fortunately
they are categorized, so you only have to look under the heading of
"Applications".
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