On Monday 14 March 2005 08:35 am, p s wrote: > Hi, > I've only recently heard of your OpenOffice suite - received on a > sample CD from a series about 'Your PC at Home' (UK) and I was > interested to view and evaluate it to compare with the currently > installed MS Office suite (which if I recall correctly is a 1997 > version). > > Before installing however, I would like clarification about any > possible issues that may arise from installing your 'OpenOffice 1.1' > on the same pc, and if both OpenOffice & MS Office (Word & Excel etc) > can be used side-by-side without any problems. > > Would either of the programs be 'affected' in any way if I upgrade MS > office to a later version? > > Also, if I later decided to remove OpenOffice whether any 'common > files' would be affected. > > > I hope you can understand my concerns and explain any issues in > not-too-technical terms (I am quite happy working with pc's and > probably understand more about them than I realise but lack > confidence at times when reading technical stuff!). > > Many thanks in anticipation of a helpful reply. > > M > You should have no particular problems running both MS Office and OpenOffice.org (its correct name). However, before installing you need to read very carefully the SETUP-GUIDE.pdf which comes with the program. The specific part of the setup guide to read carefully is the section on file associations.
If the OpenOffice.org program on the CD is a zip file, it will have to be extracted first to a folder. Make sure to write down where this folder is located on your hard drive. That folder will contain a very large number of files including SETUP-GUIDE.pdf and setup.exe. If the OpenOffice.org program has already been extracted before being burned to the CD, enter that folder to find the two files I mentioned in the above paragraph. If you have additional questions, send them to the same place you did this one: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
