On 14/04/2008, Brian Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to download Open Office, but will I have to remove Microsoft Office > 2003?
No. Provided you have space on your hard disk they can both live and work happily on the same system. When you install OpenOffice it will ask you if it should set itself as the "default program" for opening Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents. The "default program" is the one that Windows invokes when you double click on a file. You can answer yes or no *separately* for each of the three document types. Whichever is the default program for a type, you can alway open a document using the other by *right* clicking on it, choosing "Open with ..." and then either picking the program from the list offered or browsing to it in its installation folder (probably c:\program files\...). Also, you can change the "default program" for any type of file by changing its "file association". See the Windows Help for details. Note that OpenOffice can read and write MS Office documents but the converse is not true. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
