Glad to be of assistance. Installation was confusing to me when I
migrated from Windows to OS X; I was used to much more complicated
installation, so just dragging an application to the Application folder
seemed way too simple.
I forgot to also suggest that after you're done with the installation,
you can "Eject" the mounted image file and delete the dmg file.
On 9/17/09 users-digest-h...@openoffice.org wrote:
Subject:
Re: [users] Re: can't find the program on my macbook
From:
Eric David <erich_da...@verizon.net>
Date:
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:19:41 -0700
To:
users@openoffice.org
Michael: Many thanks for your clear reply. i followe the instructions
and am all set up.
Eric David
Michael Reich wrote:
After downloading software, you need to install it before it can be
used. You should download software to a particular location, like
your desktop or your Documents folder, so you can easily locate them.
It sounds like you downloaded the installer, but didn't actually
install the program. If so, use the spotlight feature (the blue
magnifying glass icon in the upper right corner of your desktop) to
search for something like OOo_3.1.1_MacOSXIntel_install_en-US.dmg (see
below).
When you download the OOO package from the web on a Mac, you should
have an installation program which ends with a .dmg extension
(OOo_3.1.1_MacOSXIntel_install_en-US.dmg). Double-click this file
and it will "mount" as a disk image on the Mac desktop. It also
should automatically open a window which displays an OpenOffice.org
icon and another icon for your Applications folder. Simply drag the
OpenOffice.org icon and drop it on the Applications icon. The
software will then install in your Applications folder. This is the
standard way programs are installed in OS X.
After installation, you can launch OpenOffice by navigating to your
Applications folder and double clicking the OpenOffice icon.
If you need more assistance, let us know.
I am new to Open Office and to macbook. I downloaded Open Office
yesterday. When I went to use it today, I could not find it.
What did I do wrong?
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