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Hi Herbert, Thank you for you advice. I have now downloaded open office 2 on to a memory stick and shall transfer it to the other computer. Many thanks again for your guidance. Our computer expert is abroad for a few months, so I had to find an alternative way of getting the info. Cheers Paul Mike Wye Associates Natural Building Decorating Products www.mikewye.co.uk Tel: 01409-281644 Fax 01409-281669 Buckland Filleigh Sawmills Buckland Filleigh Beaworthy Devon EX21 5RN Monday-Friday 8am - 4.30pm - Original Message - From: Herbert Eppel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 5:33 PM Subject: [users] Re: [moderated] On 02.03.2006 14:53 UK Time, Mike Wye wrote: No, the link worked fine the first time. I am simply not sure what I need to do to put it on to a CD. I am afraid that the language used is not my language. I am sure that it seems obvious to most people who would access open office but not to me I am sorry to say, hence I am reluctant to downlaod anything that I can't use or might cause a problem. For example I don't see how I can get 500MB in to a CD or how desirable it would be to fill my hard drive with this size file. Does this make sense? Sort of, but not entirely. First of all, I'm not sure where you got the 500 MB figure from, but anyway, even if it was 500 MB it wouldn't be a problem fitting it onto a CD (which holds between 700 and 800 MB, as far as I am aware - and, incidentally, DVDs have about 10 times that capacity!) Secondly, if you want to install OpenOffice you can't avoid filling your hard drive with a significant amount of data, because that's what happens with any software you install. The actual space taken up the OpenOffice installation is about 200 MB, which sounds a lot, but then again you get a lot for it! You have several options: 1. You can download it yourself from http://www.openoffice.org, in which case you would simply click on the big green button and follow the instructions - but you said you don't want to connect the computer on which you want to install OpenOffice to the internet, so that rules out that option. In any case, unless you have a broadband connection, this isn't really practical because the file is too large. 2. You can download the file as described under 1. above via a different computer and then save the installation file on a CD yourself so that you can install it on the non-internet computer, but you say you don't know how to put things on CD - perhaps you could ask someone locally how to do it? 3. You can go to http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom, select one of the UK-based suppliers and simply order a CD for about a fiver and have it delivered through the post and take it from there. 4. I would still be happy to prepare a CD for you, but that would simply be a different form of option 3., and perhaps you would like to explore options 1 to 3 above first? Cheers Herbert Eppel -- www.HETranslation.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi Herbert, We would be delighted if you were to burn a CD for us. I went to the link but I am obviously not doing the right thing. If I lost a friend for every time I was called mildly paranoid or worse, I would be very lonely:-) Please let me know what your expenses are. Pleased that you find the website interesting. Would it be appropriate to take this off list now? Regards Paul Watts Mike Wye Associates Natural Building Decorating Products www.mikewye.co.uk Tel: 01409-281644 Fax 01409-281669 Buckland Filleigh Sawmills Buckland Filleigh Beaworthy Devon EX21 5RN Monday-Friday 8am-1pm 1.30pm-4.30pm From: Herbert Eppel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:23:54 + Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Subject: [users] Re: [moderated] On 01.03.2006 20:21 UK Time, Steven Cox wrote: On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:08:31 -0500, Herbert Eppel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be quite happy to burn one and send it to you, but I'm not sure whether that's frowned upon. It's not frowned upon at all. That's the cool thing about Open Source, you can copy it and give it to as many of your friends as you like! Thanks, I just hope that, having called him mildly paranoid, Paul still regards me as a friend :-) -- Herbert Eppel www.HETranslation.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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No, the link worked fine the first time. I am simply not sure what I need to do to put it on to a CD. I am afraid that the language used is not my language. I am sure that it seems obvious to most people who would access open office but not to me I am sorry to say, hence I am reluctant to downlaod anything that I can't use or might cause a problem. For example I don't see how I can get 500MB in to a CD or how desirable it would be to fill my hard drive with this size file. Does this make sense? Regards Paul Mike Wye Associates Natural Building Decorating Products www.mikewye.co.uk Tel: 01409-281644 Fax 01409-281669 Buckland Filleigh Sawmills Buckland Filleigh Beaworthy Devon EX21 5RN Monday-Friday 8am - 4.30pm - Original Message - From: Herbert Eppel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:00 AM Subject: [users] Re: [moderated] On 02.03.2006 09:21 UK Time, Mike Wye wrote: Hi Herbert, We would be delighted if you were to burn a CD for us. I went to the link but I am obviously not doing the right thing. If I lost a friend for every time I was called mildly paranoid or worse, I would be very lonely:-) Please let me know what your expenses are. Pleased that you find the website interesting. Would it be appropriate to take this off list now? Yes, probably. However, before we do that, perhaps it might be useful to clarify a couple of things. As I said, I don't mind sending you a CD (don't worry about expenses, it's only a few pence for the CD plus a stamp), but I'm slightly intrigued by the fact that you obviously have access to an internet-enabled computer (otherwise you wouldn't be able to communicate in this forum) but seem to have trouble with the CD distribution information. You said you are not doing the right thing. Are you saying you have trouble with the link I sent? Here it is again: http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom That page contains information about a number of UK distributors, and you can buy a CD for a few quid. Regards. -- Herbert Eppel www.HETranslation.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I have a computer that I do not link to the internet for fear of getting a virus. Is it possible to obtain Open office 2 on a disc please? Paul Watts Mike Wye Associates Natural Building Decorating Products www.mikewye.co.uk Tel: 01409-281644 Fax 01409-281669 Buckland Filleigh Sawmills Buckland Filleigh Beaworthy Devon EX21 5RN Monday-Friday 8am-1pm 1.30pm-4.30pm
