On 06/24/2008 01:20 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: > > It sounds as if you got into the custom install dialogs, and afterwards > don't see anything on your desktop. What you should end up with is a > folder in your Start menu for OOo, with icons there for each of the > applications, and the actual programs (swriter.exe, scalc.exe, and so > on) are normally in the C:\Program Files\ OpenOffice.org x.y\Program > directory, where x.y is the particular OOo version. Do you not have > anything in the Start menu? If you don't, there was probably no normal > installation completion. I don't know what (if anything) you actually > tried to customize, but you might try a search for swriter.exe to see if > any programs were actually installed. > > If so, this will tell you what to use in the "Open With" dialog for each > of the MS Office filetypes, selecting the option of always using it if > that's what you want as the default. > > If not, and you still have the original dowloaded file, you might try > double-clicking it again and this time accept the default installation. > Part of that should give you the choice to use OOo for MS Office > filetypes. It may say something about replacing or repairing an existing > installation, and you probably want to replace.
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