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.

Perhaps this is easier?
http://download.openoffice.org/common/instructions.html


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